> Even Deepseek at its absurd prices is a very healthy business. Regarding their return on capex multiple, their CEO said they make a six-fold profit on their compute capex with 10 month recuperation.

That's "theoretical profit" - in some imaginary world where the free subscribers would pay the top tier cost.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/01/deepseek-claims-theoretica...