That's crazy. You obviously don't care much about your children's lives if you let them roll around in 60+ year old vehicles with methhead level repairs done to them.
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everyone else mostly seems to have just decided to cheat on benchmarks to make their models look better than they actually are, and none seem to want to actually try to make better models.
No other provider is getting the cache hit rates deepseek does or the retention. They use a unique setup that no other provider is bothering to replicate.
> Quantization is not trash, there's a year of evidence that shows Q4 provides ~4% degradation and Q8 provides ~1% degradation, and you don't need that severely quantized to gain benefits in inference performance.
Lol. Quanting at all pretty much neuters a model, just look at how astra performs now compared to at launch.
oai and anthropic also subsidize the hell out of their subs compared to what you will find in smaller competitors, a $20 codex sub gets you like $100-150 usage/wk which goes way further than 2x opencode go (which would only net out to $120 of deepseek 4.1 usage a month, on top of being low performing quantized trash).
Don't really understand people who say DS4 or 4.1 have frontier level performance. Anyone who has used it will tell you that it's a hallucination factory. The only thing it has going for it is deepseek's unique infrastructure that allows better cache retention, but the cost savings from that obviously come nowhere near how much subsidized usage you get out of even a $20 subscription with openai or anthropic.
When they cut prices on luna the first time around they took (literally) millions of users from anthropic.
> Cache hits and refreshes on Claude Opus 5.5 are priced at 0.05x the base input price.
If they do the same for Haiku and Sonnet 5.5 then we should also see 5c/mtok and 10c/mtok cache read for those models, respectively. Still too high for Haiku IMO, Luna is 2c/mtok.
The answer is just a second $20 subscription.
There isn't much compelling reason to use these unless you are just averse to giving money to openai/altman. A $20 codex sub gives you ~$150 of luna use per weekly limit, while there isn't any good subsidized options for chinese models at all (and the few who were subsidizing, like opencode, rugpulled by reducing monthly limit to $60 to $15 with no notice to users).
Deepswe results show that grok 4.6 is more expensive per-task and consistently scores worse than: luna xhigh, glm 5.3, astra low, sol high/xhigh, opus 5 medium.
Grok also used almost 3x as many tokens/turns to complete tasks than all of those models (besides luna), so it takes way more time to complete a task.
There isn't much reason to use Grok at all, it's gotten better but it's still worse than every other player in the field, which shouldn't be a surprise considering until about a year ago they were just buying tokens from other providers and pretending it was their own model.
With gpt-6 luna and sol coming tomorrow it's going to look even worse too, especially if new luna retains the same dirt cheap pricing that 5.6 luna has.
Lol. There is zero chance the low end mobile phone SoC shipped in those is remotely as fast as a six year old M1. Even flagship SoCs from qualcomm and samsung still do not exceed it's performance yet.
What makes you think a googlebook will be half the price of a macbook neo?
Also, a used M1 macbook air is $300 on swappa/ebay and will be even better than the neo anyway. It's still more performant than every other non-Apple ARM based laptop/chromebook on the market and will have far superior build quality.
This thing, like all other google/android products, will be DOA, and the ones actually duped into buying one will be left with a paperweight in a year or two when the cheap hardware inevitably breaks.
That's the desired outcome for them. They want us to either die or comply.
There will be no successor civilization to humans. Earth won't be able to support multicellular life in a few hundred million years due to the sun becoming gradually more luminous over time, resulting in higher surface temperatures that will eventually culminate in a runaway greenhouse happening, as it already has on Venus. Due to human-driven climate change effects this event will certainly happen much sooner (<100m years) as well, which is simply not enough time for another intelligent species to evolve after a large-scale extinction event.
Even if life evolving on earth was an incredibly rare event the chance of such circumstances not happening elsewhere even in our own galaxy is infinitely small - there are trillions of planets and 100b+ stars. On top of that there are 100s of billions of galaxies within the observable universe as well.
The designs are finalized years in advance. Apple would have made the choice to ship USB-C before the EU mandate was even proposed.
the people making a stink about this know this but are pretending that they don't because it would overtly out them as pedophiles.
I can always pay cash or swipe a card at a gas pump, why not the same at an EV charger? This is something that doesn't need to be changed.