alt Hacker NewsWe don't actually know how much money DeepSeek spent or how much compute they used. The numbers being thrown around are suspect, the paper they published didn't reveal the costs of all models nor the R&D cost it took to develop them.
In any AI R&D operation the bulk of the compute goes on doing experiments, not on the final training run for whatever models they choose to make available.
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tw1984 • 02/20/2025
> The numbers being thrown around are suspect, the paper they published didn't reveal the costs of all models nor the R&D cost it took to develop them.
did any lab release such figure? will be interesting to see.
One thing I (intuitively) don't doubt - that they spent less money for developing R1 than OpenAI spent on marketing, lobbying and management compensation.