It should also be pretty obvious that this is following the usual Chinese MO of using massive state subsidies to destroy the international competition with impossibly low dumping prices. We are seeing this in all sorts of sectors.
In this case, DeepSeek is announcing the training time for their LLMl, which wall street is extrapolating costs from. No state aid involved.
Until this has been independently verified, I have my doubts. This wouldn’t be the first time for China to vastly exaggerate its technological capabilities.
In this case, DeepSeek is announcing the training time for their LLMl, which wall street is extrapolating costs from. No state aid involved.
The article mentions the cost of tokens to end users, not training time.
Ah ok, I didn’t catch that. Other articles were discussing v3’s training using only 2.8M GPU hours.
https://www.ft.com/content/c82933fe-be28-463b-8336-d71a2ff5bbbf
Until this has been independently verified, I have my doubts. This wouldn’t be the first time for China to vastly exaggerate its technological capabilities.