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Did AI just disrupt Sam Altman’s job?
DeepSeek’s successes call into question whether billions of dollars in compute are actually required to win the AI race. The conventional wisdom has been that big tech will dominate AI simply because it has the spare cash to chase advances. Now, it looks like big tech has simply been lighting money on fire. Figuring out how much the models actually cost is a little tricky because, as Scale AI’s Wang points out, DeepSeek may not be able to speak honestly about what kind and how many GPUs it has — as the result of sanctions.
By way of The Verge