ChinaDeepSeek revealed it earns $38 per chip-hour at off-peak prices.

The US Department of Homeland Security formally banned purchases of DeepSeek the same week.

DeepSeek open-sourced its DeepInfer inference framework on 20 October, with one V4.1 Flash cluster serving 155 trillion tokens a day.

DeepSeek has not confirmed market reports of a 100 billion yuan funding round closing within days.

How each outlet framed it
TMTPost
challenges the '55% of tokens go to AI short dramas' claim via ByteDance's '10% video' rebuttal and DataEye's note that drama tokens use different compute from research training

Sources: TMTPost