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The model's benchmark results appear to have originated in the official DeepSeek WeChat group and were repeatedly reposted before appearing in a Hacker News table.

The author traces the benchmark information from the official DeepSeek WeChat group to a Reddit post, which moderators deleted as low-effort, and then to an ASCII-art table on Hacker News. ✦ AI generated

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In terms of benchmarks... as far as I can tell those were released to the Official DeepSeek WeChat Group, then copied and pasted into a post on Reddit which was deleted by the moderators for being "low-effort", then copied into this ASCII-art table on Hacker News.

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