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Sam Altman said startups with only $10 million were 'totally hopeless' competing with OpenAI, DeepSeek's disruption says otherwise (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There's no way I believe that Deepseek was made for the $5m figure I've seen floating around.

But that doesn't matter. If it cost $15m, $50m, $500m, or even more than that, it's probably worth it to take a dump in Sam Altman's morning coffee.

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

DeepSeek claimed the model training took 2,788 thousand H800 GPU hours, which, at a cost of $2/GPU hour, comes out to a mere $5.576 million.

That seems impossibly low.

DeepSeek is clear that these costs are only for the final training run, and exclude all other expenses

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

There would have been many other runs before the release version.