DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model

Re:DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model by toddmorey on Sunday May 24, 2026 @02:27PM (#48259781)

Ok, not my favorite narrative, but assume asymmetric application of intellectual property rights was a big factor. Wouldn't the US exploiting asymmetric labor wages, rights, and conditions be the even bigger story? It still feels like a short-sighted own goal. The US abandoned its ability to manufacture. Maybe dark factories and robotics can bring it back, but manufacturing supply chains are just so much more advanced in Asia than in the US.

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Re:DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model by smallmancontrov on Sunday May 24, 2026 @06:43PM (#48261741)

> Wouldn't the US exploiting asymmetric labor wages, rights, and conditions be the even bigger story?

Yes, but "the US" is reductive. The exploitation wasn't done by the towns having their tentpole industries shipped overseas, it was done by the people shipping them overseas and pocketing the profit. US capital owners made a deal with the Chinese Communist Party that was good for both of them and bad for the US.

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Re:DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model by airstrike on Sunday May 24, 2026 @08:06PM (#48262278)

That's really well said.

The promise was always to get cheaper goods and services in the US, so long as the Chinese firms never competed. Guess what, they compete now.

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Re:DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model by tmnvix on Monday May 25, 2026 @01:06AM (#48263569)

And good for the people of China presumably.

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