"Industry analyst firm SemiAnalysis reports that the compan…
"Industry analyst firm SemiAnalysis reports that the company behind DeepSeek incurred $1.6 billion in hardware costs and has a fleet of 50,000 Nvidia Hopper GPUs, a finding that undermines the idea that DeepSeek reinvented AI training and inference with dramatically lower investments than the leaders of the AI industry." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-might-not-be-as-disruptive-as-claimed-firm-reportedly-has-50-000-nvidia-gpus-and-spent-usd1-6-billion-on-buildouts
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I doubted the claim of $6 mil right form the start, but it is certainty impressive that R1 can run on much less powerful hardware than ChatGPT
my understanding is that they said only the final stage of training was 6 mil or something like that, but everyone freaked out and said the whole thing cost 6 mil