API rate is absurdly cheap at least until the end of the month, 75℅ off list currently
Anecdotally, on recent code instead of pelicans, it's noticeably worse than Western SOTA but strong prompts and a more competent operator than me would help close the gap
IMO the valuation shock when the first deepseek models came out were an under-reaction: Anthropic and OpenAI are months ahead, not years
This would be laughable in any remotely functional economy. I believe it actually has a chance of working in this one. They'd totally fuck eBay just like ThinkGeek, too :(