SemiAnalysis says DeepSeek spent more than it claims

4 points by harscoat 1 year ago | 4 comments

gnabgib 1 year ago |

Discussion (30 points, 2 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936185

aurareturn 1 year ago |

Isn't their $5m claim in pure compute cost only?

ReptileMan 1 year ago |

TL DR : The parent company spend a lot on hardware, but there is nothing in the article to refute the DS claims.

fspeech 1 year ago | |

Right. And the number is based on rental rates of GPUs so how many GPUs they own is irrelevant to the claim.