DeepSeek (and other open weight models) can be served by anyone with the means to do it. All of the big open weight models are available on OpenRouter via commodity providers.
replyDeepSeek is actually more expensive than expected ATM due to compute shortage, but they said it would come down in price.
replyThe compute shortage will be bigger 3 months from now.
replyDepends how China scales its semiconductor industry.
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