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DeepSeek-V3 (Python) — deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 on GitHub.
You need frontier reasoning at hobbyist prices, or you need on-prem inference where data can't leave your network.
AI & ML
The frontier open-weights model that broke the "frontier = closed" assumption. ~95k stars on the inference repo. Matches GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet on most benchmarks at ~1/30th the API cost. Mixture-of-experts, 671B params with 37B active. Quirk: trained on Chinese + English so it's slightly weaker on niche languages. The honest tradeoff is hosting cost — running V3 needs 8×H100 minimum. Most teams use the official API.
You need frontier reasoning at hobbyist prices, or you need on-prem inference where data can't leave your network.
You need top-tier creative writing or you're not cost-constrained — Claude Opus is still the ceiling.
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