Deepseek's innovations are published as research. There's nothing 'assumed' about this. The common slur repeated in the West that Chinese labs are parasitic distillers is totally absurd when so many genuinely valuable advances and contributions to the field are published openly by China's labs.
How is it just assumptions? They provide the data to back up their claims.
I am talking about correlating Anthropic/OpenAI cache prices going down with Deepseek publication - neither of those labs have said that's what they used for example.
And the only data they are showing is that cache prices went down for new Claude/OpenAI models but that's proving nothing, IMO.