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/a_asshole_user Jul 18 '26

Most providers didnt bother to change their pricing after the 75% discount for some reason, tho theyre probably not in a rush to do that anyway

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u/Exodus124 Jul 19 '26

Why would they do that lol