DeepSeek's 890 bytes per token sparks demand for long-context evals
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-10
teortaxesTex highlights that DeepSeek's new model runs at an extremely low 890 bytes per token, and calls for long-context benchmark results to verify whether such aggressive KV-cache compression holds up on long documents.
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