DeepSeek says its V3 and R1 models' cost of inferencing relative to sales during a 24-hour-period on February 28 put “theoretical” profit margins at 545%
Chinese artificial intelligence phenomenon DeepSeek revealed some financial numbers on Saturday, saying its “theoretical” …
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Discussion
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@deepseek_ai
@deepseek_ai
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🚀 Day 6 of #OpenSourceWeek: One More Thing - DeepSeek-V3/R1 Inference System Overview Optimized throughput and latency via: 🔧 Cross-node EP-powered batch scaling 🔄 Computation-communication overlap ⚖️ Load balancing Statistics of DeepSeek's Online Service: ⚡ 73.7k/14.8k
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@zephyr_z9
@zephyr_z9
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The reason why I'm saying all this is becuz the whale is processing 600B tokens & outputting 150B tokens per day on 300 H800 nodes (2400 H800s) 100x (240K) will get u 60T tokens & output of 15T tokens per day The world does not have this high AI demand
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@zephyr_z9
@zephyr_z9
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Wenfeng is devious China can meet all its AI demands in less than 250K GPUs And yes Jevon's paradox got fucked in the ass [image]
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@modestproposal1
@modestproposal1
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“They have 545% margins”
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@dorialexander
Alexander Doria
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Some EU influential person just posted on LinkedIn: “Although Deepseek claims to have trained R1 for a bare $5m (...) some analysts claim that this might only be the cost of computational capacity used for the training excluding research and personnel” => they literally said so.
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@bindureddy
Bindu Reddy
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In 6 months, we will go from $150 to $1.50 per 1M tokens - pure inference efficiency will increase by 700% - model sizes will decrease by 1000% - test time compute will become 1000% more efficient for 95% of queries Frontier tech moves at lightning speed
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@theahmadosman
Ahmad
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I love DeepSeek. The secret sauce was delivered to our doors this week. They wiped billions of dollars of future revenue for a lot of (predatory) companies.
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@ai_for_success
AshutoshShrivastava
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What the heck, DeepSeek's cost-profit margin is 545%. They don't charge $200, and everything is open source. Just imagine what DeepSeek would do if they got $500B. Respect the 🐋.
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@tphuang
@tphuang
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Impressive. DeepSeek achieves maximum utilization of its H800 nodes during 24 hr period. Maximizing cache hit to deliver more for less -> can achieve theoretical margin of 545%! Even accounting for free web/app access + nighttime discount, DS still probably profitable. [image]
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@bytebot
Colin Charles
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How is DeepSeek making so much theoretical profits? 545% is amazing, in a time when AI companies are burning so much cash. Out on Bloomberg now too [image]
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@jiayi_pirate
Jiayi Pan
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It's truly inspiring to see how a small, sincere, and talented team can shake up the entire world, even in an industry as fiercely competitive as AI 成事在人
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@hanchunglee
Han
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deepseek dropped over $100b valuations of work over its open source week. insane.
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@hajekd
David Hajek
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Combined peak node occupancy for V3 and R1 inference services reached 278, with an average occupancy of 226.75 nodes (each node contains 8 H800 GPUs). Thats not “thousands” GPUs at all.
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@vllm_project
@vllm_project
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Amazing system! It is now the north star for LLM inference 🌟. We will get there, quickly.
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@dl_insider
Jose Lopez
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Amazing sharing by DeepSeek. They are truly sharing everything. This hit below the waterline of every company whose moat was to serve an LLM efficiently. [image]
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@niklas_sikorra
Niklas Sikorra
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That means on a world scale: At 7.5 Trillion tokens / day or 86.8 mn tokens per second 1,178 GPUs would be needed or a total investment of $100mn to serve the world marked? Is this correct?
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@madiator
Mahesh Sathiamoorthy
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Everyone in the US is like.. “we don't know how to serve DeepSeek-R1” and “it's too hard and its so expensive”.. and these guys have a profit margin of 545%. WOW. WOW. WOW
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@valmianski
Ilya Valmianski
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This is insane. Deepseek v3 is cheaper than gpt4o and still has like 80% margin, on an inferior H800 node!
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@oyattia
Omar Attia
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They must be lying bro. They're a CCP psyop bro. Believe me bro I invested in 20 SaaS AI companies and I need this to be true or my LPs will be furious at me bro.
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@junxian_he
Junxian He
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They even release the details of profit and cost of their deployed system. New level of openness
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@jobergum
Jo Kristian Bergum
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What a week of open source release from @deepseek_ai . Lots of novel AI infra. From a distributed file system to how they scale inference with a «few» hundred H800. [image]
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@tariqrauf
Tariq Rauf
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you can now have a colossus clusters inference output at 20% of the cost v/s last night human ingenuity knows no bounds, especially when resource constrained
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@adamlogs
@adamlogs
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It's like a new big guy coming to the street : YO, LISTEN UP, YOU LOT! DEEPSEEK JUST DROPPED A TASTE OF THEIR NEXT BIG HIT, AND I'M CALLIN' IT—THEY'RE PACKIN' HEAT! THIS AIN'T NO WEAK STUFF; IT'S A FISTFUL OF AI POWER! STEP UP, ANY OF YA—BRING YOUR BEST, 'CAUSE I'M READY TO
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@jacquesthibs
Jacques
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Unreal...they just...they just released it “We hope this week's insights offer value to the community and contribute to our shared AGI goals.” “⚡ 73.7k/14.8k input/output tokens per second per H800 node 🚀 Cost profit margin 545%”
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@robinzhong42
Robin Zhong
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Amazing! DeepSeek's efficiency inference service is top-notch, delivering great performance and profitability: ⚡ 73.7k/14.8k input/output tokens per second per H800 node 🚀 Cost profit margin 545% They're incredible! It reminds me of the Google talents at the beginning, where [ima…
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@stuartreid1929
Stuart Reid
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Holy shit. Ngl the short thesis on Nvidia is starting to make sense. Why invest 10x on CAPEX when there are 10x software gains seemingly around every corner!
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@glennluk
Glenn
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What's more likely? The company that pushes out its methods onto open source is lying about its compute needs Or research analyst guessed wrong on the number of chips they inputed into an excel table
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@gavinsbaker
Gavin Baker
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The endless quote tweets commenting on the “545% profit margin” are quite funny. Reminds me of 2022 when there was a viral interview with seed stage VCs who said “we are trying to get really smart, really fast on what exactly gross margins are” or something to this effect.
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@nembal
Balázs Némethi
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Deepseek is both Silicon Valley's dream child and its worst nightmare. It operates at a staggering 515% margin, with revenue that would justify a $10 billion valuation—while simultaneously releasing open-source tooling and foundational models at a level that would typically
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@longtonylian
Long Lian
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Quote: “If all tokens were billed at DeepSeek-R1's pricing (*), the total daily revenue would be $562,027, with a cost profit margin of 545%.” [image]
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@mvvvqv
@mvvvqv
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545% margin if all requests are for R1 [image]
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@yuchenj_uw
Yuchen Jin
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holy shit, DeepSeek is able to get 73.7k tokens/s input and 14.8k tokens/s output throughput per H800 node! Their profit margin is 545%, while OpenAI is bleeding money despite charging so much?? that's how awesome their inference stack is. [image]
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@oyattia
Omar Attia
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What deepseek is releasing for free is enough to build a $500M startup, maybe more. Just out there for free. That's why the VC bros were freaking out. This is not normal.
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@kimmonismus
@kimmonismus
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DeepSeek has a cost profit margin of over 500%! What the! Holy moly [image]
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@bindureddy
Bindu Reddy
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DEEPSEEK CATEGORICALLY PROVES WE DON'T NEED ALL THOSE GPUs OpenAI - GPT-4.5 - $150 per 1M tokens - profit margin - 0% Deepseek - R1 - $2 per input token - profit margin - 545% DeepSeek is almost 300x more efficient!! 🤯
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@doodlestein
Jeffrey Emanuel
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OK, so now we know just how much more efficient DeepSeek is for inference in terms of total tokens per second processed. They are doing roughly 7-8x more tokens per second on an H-800 (a crippled, export-control version on the H-100) than the open-source state of the art on H-100
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@dorialexander
Alexander Doria
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In one year we went from will China catch up? to well the US catch up?