Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoSam Altman said startups with only $10 million were 'totally hopeless' competing with OpenAI, DeepSeek's disruption says otherwisewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square75linkfedilinkarrow-up1507arrow-down118
arrow-up1489arrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square75linkfedilink
minus-squarepachrist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up67arrow-down2·1 year 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-up33·1 year 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-up5·1 year agoThere would have been many other runs before the release version.
minus-squareflamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThis claims only training costs come out to $5M. It doesn’t include previous versions (there had to have been multiple attempts before the final one), or salary of the people working on it.
minus-squareDadifer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year 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.
This claims only training costs come out to $5M. It doesn’t include previous versions (there had to have been multiple attempts before the final one), or salary of the people working on it.
https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/