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Many of these techniques haven't been published very long ago - it often takes a good 6-8 months for techniques to percolate. But also, they come at a complexity cost and, seemingly, also at a stability cost.


Also potentially a performance (in terms of output quality) cost. DeepSeek is cheap on a per token basis but lags behind in the benchmarks, perhaps it was a calculated tradeoff.


To be fair Deepseek V4 now is just a preview, which likely implies training isn't completed.




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