> Deepseek the company is not related to the weights of the model.
I know the model is there, but running the 671B model would literally not make sense unless you can provide services at scale. The only reason that I, and others care is DeepSeek costs 15 times less than Sonnet. Stopping DeepSeek from offering their service at that price is the whole point of why OpenAI and Microsoft is now serious about all of this.
I believe the goal is to prevent any other provider from providing the models as an API service. OpenAI and Anthropic charge as much as they do because they bake in high salaries and R&D. With the weights freely available, the only cost is just hardware and support staff.
I know the model is there, but running the 671B model would literally not make sense unless you can provide services at scale. The only reason that I, and others care is DeepSeek costs 15 times less than Sonnet. Stopping DeepSeek from offering their service at that price is the whole point of why OpenAI and Microsoft is now serious about all of this.
I believe the goal is to prevent any other provider from providing the models as an API service. OpenAI and Anthropic charge as much as they do because they bake in high salaries and R&D. With the weights freely available, the only cost is just hardware and support staff.