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I'm trying to figure out the same thing. They make claums about it being totally free, but everything is in Chinese and you appear to need a Chinese mobile number to register.


"Free" does not mean "available to everyone."


The tweet is in English, which strongly suggests that the product is accessible in English, but then doesn’t appear to be.

That begs the question what the point is of an announcement in English?


Great PR in a national pride kind of way. I can only imagine DeepSeeks PR earlier this year was a huge win for them internally in the country.




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