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1 month agoMore 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."
“Perhaps most strangely of all, Somers’ AI clone was designed to dispense health advice, which was allegedly cleared by doctors. Given the tech’s strong tendency to hallucinate facts, we’ll have to take Hamel by his word that AI Somers won’t be misleading the public — let alone mindlessly shilling health products currently featured on SuzanneSomers.com, where the clone will eventually be hosted.”
What a world.