> the Chinese models really are slow and token-inefficient
This totally depends on the model. Deepseek V4 is very fast and efficient.
This totally depends on the model. Deepseek V4 is very fast and efficient.
But yes, it’s cheap.
People talk about frontier as if it's the only innovation worth pursuing. Deepseek V4 is far from fontier, but it's architecture is super innovative and efficient and what it achieves at that size (especially V4 Flash) is incredible.
Those are all frontier-competitive models.