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A Beijing bar swapped free Wi-Fi for free DeepSeek tokens

In Beijing’s Zhongguancun district, the dense grid of universities and start-ups that likes to bill itself as China’s Silicon Valley, a small bar has found a neat way to distil the country’s artificial-intelligence boom into something you can actually drink.

The AGI Bar, opened last summer by an independent developer named Song De, does not bother with the usual offer of free Wi-Fi. It hands patrons free “tokens” instead, the units of AI usage that everyone in the trade now counts as carefully as money.

The mechanics are pleasingly literal. Two Nvidia workstations sit behind the bar, self-hosting DeepSeek’s V4 Flash model so that customers can prompt, tinker and code over a beer without paying a subscription to anyone.

“It’s quite common for bars to provide free Wi-Fi with routers,” Song told Reuters, “so I’ll provide free tokens.” That such a thing is even affordable owes everything to the way ...

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