Analyst: DeepSeek's latest change is a big win for token efficiency, moving toward OpenAI's regime
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-10
teortaxesTex argues DeepSeek's latest (architecture-level) change is simple but big: it should substantially boost token efficiency, pushing DeepSeek toward the OpenAI regime — no more 'fat whale eating plain rice.' He reads it as a real leap in the company's inference economics.
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