๐จ DEEPSEEK FLASH WAS TOO CHEAP. THEN REALITY SENT THE BILL. ๐
DeepSeek V4 Flash previously increased its usage on OpenCode from about 3T โ 18T tokens/day in just around two weeks, nearly 6x.
Then on August 16:
๐ฐ DeepSeek increased prices.
V4 Flash output went from $0.28 โ $0.66/M tokens outside peak, and to $1.32/M tokens during peak hours.
Results reported from OpenCode data:
โ Token usage fell by more than 50% from the peak
โ About 10T tokens/day โdisappearedโ
โ OpenCode is said to require around 1,000 B300 GPUs to meet current demand
Itโs a very simple equation:
Cheap + Powerful + Massive Scale
Pick 2.
AI users:
โMake AI cheaper.โ
GPUs:
โAbsolutely not.โ ๐
DeepSeek Flash just showed the market a bigger problem:
AI inference isnโt just a battle of models.
Itโs a battle of compute economics.
If demand keeps rising but GPUs arenโt enough, the question isnโt:
โWhich model is the best?โ
It becomes:
โDoes AI have enough compute to run it at massive scale?โ
Do you think AI is entering an era of compute shortages, or will GPU/cloud companies quickly bring inference costs back down? ๐
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