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In rare disclosure, DeepSeek claims R1 model training cost just $294K (www.techspot.com)
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Industry researchers dispute DeepSeek's unusually low training cost claims

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[–] danglybits27@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

More clarification in this article:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/deepseek_cost_train/

"But, that's not actually what happened. Never mind the fact that $300,000 won't buy you anywhere close to 512 H800s (those estimates are based on GPU lease rates not actual hardware costs), the researchers aren't talking about end-to-end model training.

Instead, it focuses on the application of reinforcement learning used to imbue its existing V3 base model with "reasoning" or "thinking" capabilities.

In other words, they'd already already done about 95 percent of the work by the time they'd reached the RL phase detailed in this paper."

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

GPU smuggling that's how. Not sure they would include the smuggled GPU's into the numbers.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yup. No H200 and A100 and such mentioned, only H800 which were only recently banned in 2023. That's why the cost was low. Part of the GPU pool used were illegally smuggled and not counted.