Of course DeepSeek lied about its training costs, as we strongly suspected. SemiAnalysis has been following DeepSeek for the past several months. High Flyer, DeepSeek’s owner, was buying Nvidia GPU…
Both based on desperately trying to find an application for linear algebra accelerators that can generate VC-scale inflated financial valuations, so, yeah
ai is pushed by the same people as crypto, uses the same resources as crypto, captures attention of the same libertarian-brained vcs wanting to build their neofeudal empires, gives result equally as useless, unwanted and aggressively pushed by people that bought into it, not to mention crimes against environment, logic, abuse of workforce or general waste of everyone's time and attention. but nOo iTs CoMpLeTeLy dIfFeReNt tHiS tImE