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They have to cut the price because its behind the frontier models. No one would buy it otherwise
The ones paying attention and on a budget would still use them. "The best" of anything is usually not cost effective.
Even before reducing the prices, they were already 2 to 3 times cheaper than equivalent alternatives from Anthropic's ($3in, $15out) and OpenAI's ($1.75in, $14out) at $1.74in and $3.48out. Now they're around 10x cheaper.
Edit: Deepseek V4 Flash is the leading model on OpenRouter
so much for no one buying it
If it knocks out small competitiors then the big players will buy them up for the compute alone.
There is some, off the top of my head theres minstrel, inception, H company, Sarvam quite a few good Chinese ones. They're all trying to sell inference is little niches but are slowly getting eaten by giants.
You could also include the AI from the faang companies because if they cannot complete they'll likely sell off all their compute.
Actually I dont really know if they're good, I ain't paying an ai company but I read a lot of hacker news threads on their model release impressions.