How DeepSeek’s radical architecture is shattering Silicon Valley's token moat

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I'd find it very entertaining if the massive computing hardware hoarding ends up blowing up in the faces of the mega spenders who have yet to corner the market with subscribers to fend off the cheaper alternatives

> Airbnb's Brian Chesky said last year that while the company uses OpenAI's latest models, they don't rely on them heavily in production — favoring faster, cheaper alternatives like Alibaba's Qwen. And in the latest episode of VentureBeat’s podcast Beyond the Pilot, Pinterest CTO Matt Madrigal confirmed that the company went all-in on an open-source AI strategy, post-training Alibaba’s open Qwen model on the company’s proprietary "taste graph" to drive Pinterest’s assistant — achieving frontier-like quality at a 90% reduction in costs. DeepSeek’s subsequent price drop makes the possibility of such cost differences even greater.