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DeepSeek gave away its engine. The $38-an-hour parts stayed home

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Originally published at tensorust.com . TL;DR: At 5:30 AM ET today DeepSeek called DeepInfer, the engine behind its own API, "now fully open source". 1.5 million people saw that post in five hours. DeepSeek's own README lists three things a real service needs that are "not included in this release"…

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  1. 2026-10-20 14:38 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    DeepSeek gave away its engine. The $38-an-hour parts stayed home

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