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It gives them a massive advantage because they can cut the cost per token by a lot and eat Anthropic's market share. In what universe is any company going to g
by schnitzelstoat 2mo ago
It gives them a massive advantage because they can cut the cost per token by a lot and eat Anthropic's market share.
In what universe is any company going to give that advantage away?
In any case if they take away a lot of market share it's basically the same in the end - most people will be using these optimisations.
- alightsoul 2mo agoDeepseek gave it away with R1. They did it again with V4 and DSpark. You don't use it because it's Chinese
- schnitzelstoat 2mo agoI'm not American so I don't really care if it's Chinese or not. But at work I can only use the approved Enterprise Plans we have and we only have those with Anthropic and OpenAI.
- alightsoul 2mo agoCompanies and people worldwide just use whatever Americans use, because they read English but can't write it. Americans don't use Chinese models because they're Chinese.
- nijave 2mo agoAnd Chinese don't use American models because they're American. What's your point?
- pea 2mo agoThe shift may come when your blessed cloud platform provides competitive enterprise-ready hosting of the oss models
- kzrdude 2mo agoIt's available from opencode (non-chinese hosting), additionally deepseek v4-flash is available with rate limits of course, for free, there.
- szundi 2mo ago[dead]