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DeepSeek V4 Just Broke the Math on $500 Billion in AI Capex

Two game theories, one disruptor, and an investment thesis the frontier labs cannot solve their way out of.

May 8, 2026EverVests Insight
DeepSeek V4 Just Broke the Math on $500 Billion in AI Capex

Last week I switched my OpenClaw supervisor off the frontier model I’d been paying premium rates for and pointed it at DeepSeek V4. Same prompts, same context windows, same tasks — the results were at least as good as the model I’d swapped out, and on the coding-heavy paths measurably better. Cleaner reasoning traces. Faster on agentic loops. 

The week’s API bill came in at a fraction of what I’d budgeted.

I did not expect that. I had mentally categorized DeepSeek as a so...

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