I’d say that “struggles” is a bit too much. And it’s still 5x to 10x cheaper than the models they compared to in benchmarks, let’s see by how much they’re increasing that cost.

DeepSeek models are mainly focused on the efficiency they manage to have and how it forces other labs to push their prices down.

I’ve been able to use V4 Flash for most things over the past two weeks without really feeling like I need to use more expensive options like Kimi K3 or any of the American labs.