@changgaowei: DeepSeek is about to raise prices. The most likely reason, could it be that everyone's enthusiasm is too high, taking up the already scarce compute resources? Is it affecting the core AGI goal?
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The tweet discusses the rumor that DeepSeek is about to raise prices, speculating whether excessive user enthusiasm is causing a shortage of computing power, thereby affecting its core AGI goal.
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DeepSeek is raising prices. Is the most likely reason that everyone’s enthusiasm has run too hot, taking up computing power that was already in short supply? And affecting the core goal of AGI? https://t.co/cFW9i6KzXK
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