SMRTR TechJan 31, 2025Interesting Engineering

Research exposes DeepSeek’s AI training cost is not $6M, it’s a staggering $1.3B

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DeepSeek's AI training costs are much higher than previously thought, reaching $1.3 billion instead of $6 million. The company operates 50,000 mixed-model GPUs and employs innovative Multi-Head Latent Attention technology, reducing inference costs by 93.3%, but faces challenges from U.S. export controls and competition from more economical alternatives like Google's Gemini Flash 2.0.

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