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In the WeedsIn the Weeds: What DeepSeek V4 Actually Means If You're Not a Developer
A Chinese open-source AI model with 1.6 trillion parameters just dropped — and it costs pennies. Here's why that matters for your wallet, your tools, and the AI tools you already use.
Last Thursday, a lab in Hangzhou released a piece of software that can hold a conversation, write code, solve calculus problems, and reason through legal briefs — and it costs roughly one-tenth of what the same work costs from OpenAI. The lab is DeepSeek. The software is called V…
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