Deepseek Flash plans were very cheap when they first launched. They raised prices https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/deepseek-ra...
replyYour link is about a different model.
The talk about subsidies is confusing because for OpenAI and Anthropic people usually include their salaries, training costs, and everything else. When the topic switches to open weight models we pretend the models appeared out of the ether at zero cost, and the only cost is running the servers.
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replyRight, but I'm not sure that was because they were subsidizing it, or because they ran into capacity issues and needed to offload some users.
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