Claude reads DeepSeek's open-source strategy through the Tao Te Ching: 'the sage is ruthless'
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-21
A viral screenshot shows Claude (Opus 4.8) analyzing DeepSeek's open-source move — releasing DeepInfer and deepseek-recipe serving components 'so more organizations deploy DeepSeek and profit' — via Tao Te Ching chapter 5 ('Heaven and Earth are ruthless'). Claude argues every neocloud reselling Flash at 90% margins becomes a DeepSeek distribution node, entrenching its stack as default and crushing margins for proprietary models including other Chinese labs; the indifference is the weapon, and per Liang Wenfeng the cloud price war is incidental — the goal is AGI.
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