DeepSeek Coder V3 Released
Narrative
Specialized coding model. 236B parameters. Open weights. Matches GPT-4o on coding benchmarks. Trained for $3M.
Reality
HumanEval: 90.2%, MBPP: 86.7%. Code generation quality excellent. Open weights enable customization. Cost efficiency shocking. Chinese AI coding leadership established.
Implication
Coding models commoditized further. Open weights at frontier capability. Cost narrative reinforced. Western coding model economics challenged. Developer tools democratized.