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How DeepSeek’s radical architecture is shattering Silicon Valley’s token moat

How DeepSeek’s radical architecture is shattering Silicon Valley’s token moat

Published by skeptic

DeepSeek’s announcement over the weekend that it has made its 75% price cut permanent on its flagship V4 Pro model is a disruptive assault on the capital-heavy business models of Silicon Valley’s frontier labs.  The reduction on DeepSeek V4 Pro directly undercuts comparable Western models used as workhorses for enterprise production. It is 7x cheaper on inputs and 17x cheaper on outputs than Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet or OpenAI’s GPT 5.5-Med, while the lightweight DeepSeek V4 Flash undercuts entry-tier alternatives like Claude Haiku by 10x to 25x.  The price cuts are enabled by a series of hardware-software innovations, especially around cache, that make DeepSeek’s models radically more efficient to run. When hosted natively in China, DeepSeek’s cache-read pricing is a whopping 87x cheaper than Western clouds — a deflationary floor so aggressive that handset giant Xiaomi just moved to match the exact pricing tier for its newly deployed MiMo architecture. DeepSeek V4 Pro’s performance is ranked almost on par with Western frontier models, hitting 80.6% on coding-agent tasks via the SWE-bench Verified leaderboard and an elite …

Guess How Much I Love You? review – shattering portrait of a pregnancy in crisis | Theatre

Guess How Much I Love You? review – shattering portrait of a pregnancy in crisis | Theatre

Published by Sam Flores

The trigger warnings are handed to us on a card as we file into the auditorium. For good reason: Luke Norris’s play is a harrowing portrait of pregnancy and grief, plumbing the depths of sorrow within a marriage. But it is not only that. It is funny and profound, intense without ever becoming overwrought. The play follows a thirtysomething couple who remain unnamed, just like their baby, as they navigate loss. Their relationship seems to feed off a sparky kind of contrariness. She (Rosie Sheehy) is clever, ferocious, always up for a fight. He (Robert Aramayo) is gentler, using humour – and poetry, even in the face of her jeering – to soften her edges. Their dialogue sounds like a contact sport – ricocheting, fast and furious – while they wait for the results of their 20-week ultrasound scan in the first scene. Sparky … Robert Aramayo and Rosie Sheehy. Photograph: Johan Persson The news is painful, we realise in the following scene. Terrible choices have to be made around the birth of their baby. …