Conspiracy theory claims DeepSeek API secretly serves stronger models than its open weights
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-26
A new conspiracy theory circulated claiming DeepSeek secretly serves better models on its API than the weights it releases publicly. Prominent AI account teortaxesTex responded: "I don't believe this." Such API-vs-open-weights suspicions recur around open-weight vendors but are typically hard to verify.
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