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The Three-Month Gap Is the Moat
DeepSeek's lag behind US frontier labs is being read as weakness. It is the opposite. The gap is the product.
DeepSeek's lag behind US frontier labs is being read as weakness. It is the opposite. The gap is the product.
API frontier models degrade under load exactly when demand peaks. Open-weight's real argument isn't quality. It is predictability.