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0 pointsnicce1y ago0 comments

> To build DeepSeek probably requires at least a $1B+ budget. Between their alleged 50,000 H100 GPUs, expensive (and talented) staff, and the sheer cost of iterating across numerous training runs - it all adds up to far, far more than their highly dubious claim of $5.5M.

This is not fair. Is OpenAI, for example, including the CEO paycheck for the model training costs?

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Filligree1y ago

There's a sliding scale. On one end is "Include the CEO's paycheck"; on the other is "include nothing except the price tag on the final, successful training run".

Neither end is terribly useful. Unfortunately, the $5.5M number is for the latter.

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0 pointsnicce1y ago0 comments

This is not fair. Is OpenAI, for example, including the CEO paycheck for the model training costs?

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Filligree1y ago

There's a sliding scale. On one end is "Include the CEO's paycheck"; on the other is "include nothing except the price tag on the final, successful training run".

Neither end is terribly useful. Unfortunately, the $5.5M number is for the latter.

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