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Deepseek Radio Silence Baffles Community

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An r/LocalLLaMA thread with 90 comments asks why Deepseek remains stuck on V3.2 while Xiaomi, MiniMax, and others ship models that outperform it. Community speculates regulatory constraints, internal restructuring, or strategic pivot to inference infrastructure. Deepseek's earlier pace made it the default open-weights benchmark; its absence is now a notable competitive gap.

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r/LocalLLaMA thread

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CommunityDeepseekLocalLLaMAMiniMaxXiaomi

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