DeepSeek's design philosophy: compute scales easily, memory doesn't
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-10-25
A DeepInfer episode analyzes DeepSeek's motivations: from day one the lab held that compute is easy to scale while memory is hard to scale, and its model architecture and infra iterations (e.g. MLA compressing KV cache) all follow this logic, explaining its focus on inference cost efficiency.
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