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>what’s the deal here? It's good.
by GaggiX 2mo ago
>what’s the deal here?
It's good.
- baq 2mo agoSo is Fable, I’m asking who is the customer if the thing is free
- ignoramous 2mo ago"The thing" isn't free [0]: It is cheap by US/EU income standards. > who is the customer If no one else, then definitely those that can only budget $1/mo to $5/mo. Probably 100s of millions, if not billions, of the Global South. [0] Free access to DeepSeek v4 Flash is indeed available from providers like OpenRouter, OpenCode, and Freebuff (to name a few), but no ZDR.
- baq 2mo agoI mean, if you're paying this little, you aren't the customer; the service is either subsidized by investor money (best option), the government (which makes it unfair competition at best) or profit is being realized elsewhere (where?)
- GaggiX 2mo agoThere are dozens of providers, the model is just really cheap to run thanks to its clever architecture that optimize the compute and memory usage even in long contexts.