DeepSeek just gave every competitor the exact blueprint they spent years hiding 206,000 stars in 18 days, source code included
Every capability is a plugin: models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, storage, the loop itself, scheduling, the UI Swap or recompose any of it
Your AI app doesn’t need a cheaper model.
It needs a cheaper way to buy the same models. I found an API layer that routes GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok & 50+ more across providers competing for every request. And the difference in API costs can be huge:
Here's what breaks first at a 1M-token context: the thing you invented to survive it.
Sparse attention needs an indexer to pick which tokens matter, and if all 78 layers run their own indexer over a million tokens, the index eats the win. Hy4-preview's answer is IndexCache.
A blind writing test produced the result Mark least expected
DeepSeek and Qwen beat the frontier models he normally reaches for. Cheap did not just compete. It won his preference test. That is enough to rethink your default model choices.
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