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Are you using OpenRouter? I’m honestly surprised open model labs haven’t been calling them out, but heaps of providers either silently serve heavily quant versions, or don’t have inference set up correctly and don’t run the model properly.

Was a night and day difference going directly to deepseek api

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In this case, I was using Hugging Face inference set to one of a few American providers. For my professional work, I do not use Chinese inference.
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