A Builder Claims a 30x Inference Cost Cut on DeepSeek

An engineering team reportedly found a way to deliver $300 worth of DeepSeek inference for $10 — the kind of economics shift that quietly rewrites what's affordable to build.

The most consequential numbers in AI are increasingly found in inference bills, not benchmark scores. @thdxr relayed that "our inference team just came up to me and said they figured out how to give $300 of deepseek for $10" — a claimed 30x reduction in serving cost. If it holds up, it's the sort of improvement that changes which products are viable at all.

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