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No Business Model: DeepSeek's Enduring Advantage

No other frontier AGI-pilled lab anywhere has this edge

Kevin Xu
Jan 19, 2026
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This post originally appeared in Interconnected.

So DeepSeek’s models are no longer the most capable among open models, nor the cheapest, nor even the most open anymore.

We are approaching the first an…

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