PewDiePie released Odysseus on May 31 2026: a free open-source local AI workspace routing through DeepSeek-v4-flash at $0.14/$0.28 per million tokens, versus GPT-5.5 at $5.00/$30. The release reached 10,000 GitHub...
Small business owners currently paying GPT-5.5 API rates of $5.00 input and $30.00 output per million tokens can switch to DeepSeek-v4-flash at $0.14 and $0.28 respectively for equivalent productivity tasks, reducing AI API spend by 35x on input and 107x on output. No hardware investment required. Most existing OpenAI-compatible integrations require only a model parameter change to test. New DeepSeek accounts receive 5 million free tokens on signup.