DeepSeek’s Extensive GPU Use and Development Costs for AI Models
DeepSeek has access to tens of thousands of GPU accelerators for developing its AI models, including H100 GPUs, which are under US export restrictions. The reported cost of nearly $5.6 million for DeepSeek v3 likely represents only a small part of the total expense. In the paper for the V3 model, DeepSeek mentions a relatively … Read more