but it also means that reasoning models are a commodity, and there goes the moat for openAI, anthropic and others. they cannot charge a premium.

go read the privacy policy and my thought is that your data is worth a lot to deepseek so they can charge less. They even track your keystroke rhythm.

It’s mit licensed, go run it on your own hardware if you are worried about data leaks etc.

That’s what breaks open ai, anthropic’s business models. Anyone can offer services using these models - hence they are commodities.