Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoSam Altman said startups with only $10 million were 'totally hopeless' competing with OpenAI, DeepSeek's disruption says otherwisewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1578arrow-down118
arrow-up1560arrow-down1external-linkSam Altman said startups with only $10 million were 'totally hopeless' competing with OpenAI, DeepSeek's disruption says otherwisewww.tomshardware.comAlphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square76fedilink
minus-squarepachrist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up74arrow-down2·3 months agoThere’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.
minus-squareMojave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·3 months ago 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
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoThere would have been many other runs before the release version.
minus-squareDadifer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agohttps://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/
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.
There would have been many other runs before the release version.
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https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/