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How Chinas AI DeepSeek Is Upending the Model Cost Curve
Episode 119 dives into how Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has quietly built a large language model costing around $5.6 million to train, versus the $100 million-plus price tags typical for frontier models from OpenAI and Google. Lucas and Luna discuss what this means for the cost structure of AI development, why DeepSeek's approach relies on architecture innovations from an overlooked research paper, and how the price gap could reshape the competitive dynamics between U.S. and Chinese tech companies — without needing trade sanctions or export controls. They also touch on the broader economic…
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