running a US company
being a US permanent resident
using claude only for personal + business work
temporarily staying in China
took my annual renewal for the team plan
2 days later: account is banned
@claudeai, can you at least explain what happened?
and if being physically in China is a hard restriction, then just refund the unused subscription and maybe don’t ban accounts right after taking their annual renewal
People keep calling DeepSeek a model company. Look at what they actually opened.
The weights, under MIT.
FlashMLA, attention kernels at 580 TFLOPS on H800.
DeepEP, the communication library for MoE.
DeepGEMM, FP8 matrix multiply at 1,350+ TFLOPS.
3FS, an entire distributed file system they built for themselves.
And today DeepInfer, the engine behind V4.1 Flash, plus deepseek-recipe so your deployment behaves like their API.
Thats every layer of an AI lab. Model, kernels, communication, storage, serving. Thomas called the streak absurd, and he is right.
Most labs open source a small model when the big one is safe behind an API. DeepSeek opens the parts that make their own business work. Then they ship the next model anyway.
I learn more from their repos than from most papers. Anyone can. For me thats a bigger gift than the cheap tokens.