Did it really cost $ 6 million to “create” DeepSeek?Published on the average time of grinage on January 28
Tom Gerken
Technology reporter
The widely reported person is at the center of such surprise in the stock market -this impressive AI toolkit is hardly developed compared to large US budget rivals. It is the idea.
The real numbers are certainly much more difficult to say.
First, it all comes from the first table of the published report of Deepseek ExternalAbout the mechanism of the tool. The total cost of DeepSeek V3 training is estimated at $ 5.6 million (£ 4.5 million).
Some people are challenging this number, but if you take it at face value, you only cover the cost of this version of this AI -deepSeek -v3.
The researcher states that $ 5.6 million excludes the cost of previous research in space, as well as other experiments that we tried before landing on this method.
But more broadly, this number ignores all other daily costs, from office space rental and purchase to staff payments. Chinese media says that the DeepSeek team is composed of less than 140 people.
And it does not take the cost of actually developing DeepSeek on a sophisticated and easy -to -use app that exploded in the UK and US and US app stores exploded.
Therefore, researchers say that it costs less than $ 6 million to train this specific version of Deepseek, but the true cost will be much higher.
