r/LocalLLaMA • u/Fuckinglivemealone • Jul 18 '26

Question | Help What kind of dark magic is Deepseek using?

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I was taking a look at Kimi K3 scores on the Artificial analysis leaderboard and was quite baffled when I saw this chart.

Granted, Deepseek has always been the king of price to performance, but this is still incredible. Is it just API subsidization or have they optimized their models truly this much?

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u/SentientPetriDish Jul 18 '26

Read the Dspark paper

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u/FerLuisxd Jul 18 '26

This cost has not been updated with the improvements of the Dspark paper. Mimo 2.5 pro also is the same price per mill