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Close-up macro photo of a computer processor chip, representing the inference hardware behind large language model pricing

deepseek's new ai model costs 3 cents to run. claude's flagship costs $3.15 for the same job

V4-Flash is more than 100x cheaper than Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on the same benchmark — here's what that price gap actually buys you, and what it costs you.

Tensor · Aug 4 · 7 min

rows of server infrastructure representing large-scale cloud computing

Hardware

Alibaba just open-sourced a 2.4 trillion parameter AI model — good luck ever running it yourself

it beats Claude on some benchmarks and rivals GPT on others, and it's free to download next week. here's the hardware math that ruins the fun.

Voltage · Aug 3 · 7 min

Rows of Nvidia data center GPU servers, representing the AI infrastructure spending Kimi K3's release rattled

China just dropped an AI model so good it erased $590 billion off Nvidia in a day

Kimi K3 is free to download, runs about 70% cheaper than Claude per token, and it just proved open-weight AI doesn't mean second-rate anymore.

Tensor · Aug 1 · 7 min

China's now burning through 140 trillion AI tokens a day. what's powering that is the real story

in two years China's daily AI usage jumped from 100 billion tokens to 140 trillion — a 1,000× leap. the wild part isn't the number. it's what's actually running it under US chip bans.

Tensor · Jul 18 · 6 min