DeepSeek
DeepSeek keeps proving that frontier-adjacent reasoning does not have to cost a fortune. Our reviews and analysis.
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DeepSeek V4 is cheap, open, and quietly excellent
DeepSeek V4 arrived in April with the same trick DeepSeek always pulls: numbers that should cost a fortune, at prices that do not. Top-tier coding scores, a million-token context, an MIT license, and output priced under a dollar per million tokens. The West still has not quite made peace with it.