Equation 35 · Part 1 · The Real Economics of Shipping a Model to a Device
Symbol C_dev
What this part means
the platform vendor foregrounds who pays.
Its job in the formula
ev is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
A platform vendor foregrounds who pays and U rather than whether they are paid at all.
The passage around this formula
… against . A model vendor selling API access to multiple sizes foregrounds the existence of a genuine quality-cost curve rather than a single right answer. A platform vendor foregrounds who pays and U rather than whether they are paid at all. DeepSeek’s own disclosure practice is a useful corrective to take from all three: a company reporting a training cost explicitly flagged as excluding “prior research and ablation experiments” [ 5 ] is, in effect, warning its own…
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