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DeepSeek
The Chinese lab whose efficient open releases repeatedly reset price-performance expectations.
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r/LocalLLaMA · Aug 2, 2026, 1:03 PM EDT
Deepseek v4 flash - 100-150 faster t/s in prefill/pp.
Local DeepSeek V4 Flash users on CUDA 13.2+ are losing a reported 100-150 tokens/sec of prompt-processing speed to a top-k regression with a simple downgrade fix.
The Decoder · Jul 31, 2026, 4:44 PM EDT
New Deepseek Flash model matches OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna at roughly 60 percent lower cost
DeepSeek's latest Flash update delivers near-frontier performance at a fraction of the cost of comparable OpenAI models, shifting the cost-performance baseline for high-volume API routing.
The Hacker News · Jul 31, 2026, 1:32 PM EDT
Chinese Hacker Commands DeepSeek via Telegram to Launch Autonomous Attacks
Demonstrates that threat actors are already operationalizing open-source agentic frameworks with frontier models for fully autonomous cyberattacks.
Hacker News · Jul 31, 2026, 1:12 AM EDT
Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
Proving that distilling from censored models doesn't inherently transfer political censorship gives builders a reliable path to create uncensored specialized models without training from scratch.