Enjeti: DeepSeek Model Cost Over $1 Billion to Train
Saagar Enjeti · Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti · Feb 19, 2025 · at 32:10
Saagar Enjeti discusses the true training costs and government backing of China's DeepSeek AI breakthrough.
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“This idea that it's six million dollars or whatever to run is ludicrous. It obviously cost over a billion dollars to train the model before it eventually got to the point where it could run off of that six million.”
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