DeepSeek's Cost Curve Chronicle: How Token Economics Rewrote LLM Architecture

This article chronicles DeepSeek's paper timeline from 2023 to 2026, analyzing how each model generation optimized training compute, KV cache, and throughput via MoE, MLA, sparse attention, and conditional memory, shifting long-context competition from maximum length to per-token byte cost.

DeepSeekGRPOKV cache optimization

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DeepSeek's Cost Curve Chronicle: How Token Economics Rewrote LLM Architecture