DeepSeek-V3: Open-source model with 27x lower energy than Western AI

DeepSeek-V3 is an open-source model deployable via Ollama, llama.cpp, or self-hosted API, claiming 27x lower energy consumption than comparable Western models. If verified, this efficiency gap has major implications for inference cost and sustainability. Teams running high-throughput inference workloads should benchmark against Llama 3 and Mixtral.