[AINews] DeepSeek DeepInfer: Open Source SOTA Inference running 155T toks/day/cluster making $22m/day at ~80% margin for a 81 day payback

An open source “bomb” drops from China

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2026-10-21 12:00 · AI Business
DeepSeek makes DeepInfer open source to cut AI costs
2026-10-21 06:54 · Latent Space
[AINews] DeepSeek DeepInfer: Open Source SOTA Inference running 155T toks/day/cluster making $22m/day at ~80% margin for a 81 day payback

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