Aravind Srinivas retweeted jun_song addressing questions on DeepSeek API pricing. The post rejects claims of price dumping to corner the market. Srinivas states DeepSeek achieves low prices through highly efficient compact models that are significantly smaller than Claude Opus and Sonnet while matching performance. These models handle large traffic volumes on the same compute. Chamath Palihapitiya separately posted that some expect prices to keep falling substantially. The visible posts focus on model size and efficiency as the direct cause of the pricing.