DeepSeek cut KV cache per token 54x in 9 months, called the third frontier lab
max_paperclips · x · 2026-09-11
Investor 0xdoug argues DeepSeek is firmly the third frontier lab after OpenAI and Anthropic — with a different strategy: OAI and Anth push the frontier of intelligence at acceptable efficiency, while DeepSeek pushes the frontier of efficiency at acceptable intelligence. The cited datapoint: DeepSeek has compressed KV cache size per token by 54x over the last 9 months.
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