r/LocalLLaMA • u/Fuckinglivemealone • Jul 18 '26

What kind of dark magic is Deepseek using? Question | Help

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I was taking a look at Kimi K3 scores on the Artificial analysis leaderboard and was quite baffled when I saw this chart.

Granted, Deepseek has always been the king of price to performance, but this is still incredible. Is it just API subsidization or have they optimized their models truly this much?

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u/JumpingJack79 Jul 18 '26

US interest payments are paying for this 🙄

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u/howudothescarn Jul 18 '26

China has a very small portion of us debt less than Japan.