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DeepSeek's Deli Chen argues that advanced AI models will evolve into cheap, ubiquitous public utilities like electricity and water

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DeepSeek researcher Deli Chen frames next-generation AI not as premium software but as an everyday utility that anyone can draw on the way we flip a switch for power or turn a tap for water, with token generation and delivery positioned as the backbone infrastructure project of the coming decades.

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Deli Chen@victor207755822#1803inTech

I Have a Dream. That One Day,

the world’s most advanced intelligence — whether it’s called GPT, Fable, DeepSeek, or something else

Just Does Not Matter~

— will be just like electricity and water supplt today.

Cheap. Stable. High‑quality.

It will power all kinds of AI software, the way electricity powers all of akindsppliances.

We’re still living in the era when the light bulb was just invented. There will be countless AI applications in the future.

That’s why token production and token transportation — as the underlying infrastructure — will be the most important infrastructure build of the next 10 to 30 years.

This is an industry‑wide upgrade. A benefit to all of society. And this is exactly why I strongly oppose closed‑source models. #AGIForEveryone

How can we let infrastructure — something as essential as water and electricity — become a luxury for the few?

How can we expect people to pay such exorbitant bills?

#路长而歧行则将至 #我心匪石不可转也 #AI #Infrastructure #OpenSource #TokenEconomy

Deli Chen@victor207755822

A good business model should not turn your heaviest users into a source of loss. This is exactly why I have always believed that a “coding plan” (usage‑based pricing) is a terrible business.

Think of a gym that only makes money because people buy memberships and then never show up. That’s a broken logic.

A sound business model should ensure that your most core, highest‑volume users generate the largest profit – not the other way around.

#BusinessModel #StartupTruth #UsageBasedPricing #BadEconomics

8:06 AM · Jun 13, 2026 · 36.9K Views

Industry Shift

Token pipelines become the new grid

Chen calls the build-out of reliable, low-cost token production and transport the single most important infrastructure effort spanning ten to thirty years, an industry-wide shift that he says will ultimately benefit society at large.

Open Question

Closed systems clash with utility logic

By arguing that essential AI capabilities should never be a luxury reserved for a few, Chen leaves open the practical question of how open-source approaches can scale to meet the same reliability standards expected from electricity and water.

Sentiment

Positive users endorse open-source AI as essential public infrastructure like electricity for wider access, while negative users attack the advocate with insults and question Chinese labs' motives and reliability.

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48.3%

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Zephyr@zephyr_z9

"How can we let infrastructure — something as essential as water and electricity — become a luxury for the few? How can we expect people to pay such exorbitant bills?"

The most righteous AI lab

Deli Chen@victor207755822

I Have a Dream. That One Day,

the world’s most advanced intelligence — whether it’s called GPT, Fable, DeepSeek, or something else

Just Does Not Matter~

— will be just like electricity and water supplt today.

Cheap. Stable. High‑quality.

It will power all kinds of AI software, the way electricity powers all of akindsppliances.

We’re still living in the era when the light bulb was just invented. There will be countless AI applications in the future.

That’s why token production and token transportation — as the underlying infrastructure — will be the most important infrastructure build of the next 10 to 30 years.

This is an industry‑wide upgrade. A benefit to all of society. And this is exactly why I strongly oppose closed‑source models. #AGIForEveryone

How can we let infrastructure — something as essential as water and electricity — become a luxury for the few?

How can we expect people to pay such exorbitant bills?

#路长而歧行则将至 #我心匪石不可转也 #AI #Infrastructure #OpenSource #TokenEconomy

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Anime fan@badboy999654

@AshShal @victor207755822 STFU. Anthropic and OpenAI trained their model on the entire internet, pirated books and codebases without consent.

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s rz ds cf@srzdscf

@victor207755822 睡不着觉了，文思泉涌啊

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pie z@pie_z58628

@victor207755822 ✋😭🤚

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atddd@atdonce

@victor207755822 看来德理哥是真睡不着

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Zephry@Kae___

@zephyr_z9 My internal plan is as follows

👇Details are as follows 👇 👇 👇

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jun8@jun8_h

@victor207755822 Damn right!

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Reed Rawlings@reed_rawlings

@victor207755822 You dont need to use hashtags anymore but keep up the good work

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Messi Goals@7Vivekrao

@zephyr_z9 lmao stop pumping Chinese labs everyone knows they are as well one call away from being closed once they reach mythos level capability.

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Anime fan@badboy999654

@victor207755822 This is how good guys talk, btw.

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flyingpetals@flyingpetal472

@victor207755822 Absolutely right! That is just the legendary of deepseek and oss models.

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Polycool@PolycoolApp

@victor207755822 fable getting pulled turned everyone into a poet overnight lmao, but the sentiment is real

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Salik Shah ✨🚀@salik

@victor207755822 💯

https://github.com/Dirgha-AI/dirgha-code

https://github.com/Dirgha-AI/abundance-protocol

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Ankith 🐋/acc@dhtikna

@victor207755822

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The Real Revolution 2012@RealxRevolution

@victor207755822 @RnaudBertrand Big vision. But more AI mean less job for human. Mean less need for human. Mean more need for dead human. Fast. Mean more need for fake pandemic. Mean more need for fake war. Mean rich stay rich and alive. Mean more worker class stay poor or dead.

Fuck you🖕

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Karim Zitouni@kzitouni1

@victor207755822 nobody asks which power plant generated their electricity.

AI could follow the same path.

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Gort Investments@gort_investing

@zephyr_z9 Dumb question, but how can a frontier lab make money from making their models open-sourced? I mean it sounds great for all of us, I just am not familiar with what the business model looks like.

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s.h@hebbarmp

@victor207755822 Great vision. I wish the world’s most advanced intelligence will be opensource and this will be coming from DS/GLM/Kimi. Since, I see all the American companies are planning on a loot.

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Deli Chen@victor207755822

@PolycoolApp This feels like President Trump’s classic playbook — extreme pressure to force the other side to concede.

So I wouldn’t worry about Fable being permanently banned. Most likely, after some compromise is reached, it will be released again.

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Qahtan@AndallahQ

@zephyr_z9 infrastructure should never be a luxury

when basic needs become profit centers it breaks the social contract

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