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Well it's not replacing one with the other. It's creating competition between them, which in so doing weakens each one.

How is it a 'feudal lord'? These are local models.

An API is a local model?

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing

"(3) The deepseek-v4-pro model API pricing will be officially adjusted to 1/4 of the original price after the 75% discount promotion ends on 2026/05/31 15:59 UTC."

You can download the weights and run it yourself if you have appropriate hardware. Same can't be said for Claude Opus or ChatGPT.

Download here https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro

We also don't need cars at all. Or computers. Or even electricity. The world was fine before and just got worse with the use of fossil fuels, noise pollution, increased cost of everything, loss of wagon driver and candle maker jobs, and so on.