Agent swarms could be why DeepSeek cuts prices again: attention was the usage bottleneck
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-20
teortaxesTex argues DeepSeek may cut prices again because of agent swarms: today, no matter how cheap the model is, your attention is the bottleneck and usage is bounded by your time. But if swarms scale well — one user sensibly running 16, 128, or 1,024 agents — that ceiling breaks open.
The quoted user adds that DeepSeek is already extremely cheap (joking about burning "two full tanks of diesel" of DeepSeek per month) and that no competitor comes close to enabling massive swarm deployments — suggesting swarms are the next battleground in model pricing.
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