What kind of dark magic is Deepseek using?

I was taking a look at Kimi K3 scores on the Artificial analysis leaderboard and was quite baffled when I saw this chart. Granted, Deepseek has always been the king of price to performance, but this is still incredible. Is it just API subsidization or have they optimized their models truly thi

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I was taking a look at Kimi K3 scores on the Artificial analysis leaderboard and was quite baffled when I saw this chart. Granted, Deepseek has always been the king of price to performance, but this is still incredible. Is it just API subsidization or have they optimized their models truly thi