Mimo & deepseek are really amazing at optimizing ai. Read the the official blog page i linked, it will give amazing insight on how they pulled off this kind of low pricing with 2x - 3x profit margins.
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Mimo and DeepSeek have optimized AI models to achieve low pricing with 2-3x profit margins, as detailed in their official blog.
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