DeepSeek spins up three million throwaway computers a day.
A DeepSeek paper published last week describes DSec, the sandbox system it uses to train AI agents. Each sandbox is a sealed throwaway machine where a model runs commands and can break things safely. One cluster creates over 5,000 of them a second, and the paper carries founder Liang Wenfeng's name.
Why it mattersAgents get good by failing thousands of times, and someone has to pay for every failed attempt. This is the plumbing that decides whether a cheap Chinese agent can keep getting cheaper.
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