DeepSeek
Software
Base model for his team's open-source harness
"We took the cheapest DeepSeek model and made it beat OpenAI's last frontier model using this harness, and the cost is 50 times lower."
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Cost-efficient task execution in Cursor; near-free Google Sheets creation and general agent tasks
"DeepSeek V4 Flash is probably the most interesting because for certain tasks it is 105 times cheaper than Claude. I highly recommend trying these models. This model is 20 to 100 times cheaper depending on the task."
AI assistant access while traveling in China
"When I'm in China for two weeks, it's DeepSeek and Gemini. Those are my friends. DeepSeek is intentionally crippled in China. It's not as good as it is here. It can't search the web and it is trained on different data as near as I can tell."