Of course DeepSeek lied about its training costs, as we had strongly suspected. SemiAnalysis has been following DeepSeek for the past several months. High Flyer, DeepSeek’s owner, was buying Nvidia…
  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
    17·
    22 hours ago

    what if none of it’s good, all of it’s fraud (especially the benchmarks), and having a favorite grifter in this fuckhead industry is just too precious

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      610·
      20 hours ago

      well, it’s free to download and run locally so i struggle to see what the grift is

      • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Customer acquisition cost for a future service, which is ~fixed after training costs, assuming we can consider distribution costs as marginal. Reasonably impressive accomplishment, if one is taking the perspective of SV SaaS-financing brain.*

        *I don’t recommend you do this for too long, that’s how some of the people currently prominent in the news got to be the way that they are