More accurately... I'm long on a viable alternative to the current monopoly. We have two OS's for phones (android and ios), there is no reason why we shouldn't have the same for all AI hardware and software. The only one even close, is AMD.
Checked out this company about a year ago and they only offered small models. Now I see they have GLM-fp8/Kimi and DeepSeek V4 Pro. Since workloads are predominantly cached input, I'm surprised to see no separate price for cached input vs uncached.
I hope the prices will drop significantly; with these prices you'll end up with thousands in monthly costs quickly.
Hopefully more hardware companies will be on the market in the coming years. If the Chinese eventually start competing with the current memory makers, maybe that will help.
Hi! Co-founder of Doubleword here - we've hugely increased the number of models that we offer (partly thanks to work that we've done on hotswapping https://blog.doubleword.ai/fast-sglang-starts.
We're kind of known for our low prices - our prices (our main usage is for our high throughput API - the async tier) is significantly below average openrouter prices - but cached prices is coming soon which will lower them even more :)
What kind of workloads are you primarily seeing from users? I´d guess coding harness-type stuff where you have repeated calls with lots of cache hits. Or is it more like bulk OCR or invoice processing?
I agree with you though, serving up inference is secret sauce for a lot of teams and not everyone publishes how to do it because of the costs involved in doing so. They need an ROI.
It’s just weird Deepseek released a model that was not compatible with any of the usual engines. Without derez’s new project just to support DSv4, how long until it’s actually viable in llama :(