The Minutes of Bill Gurley on deepseek https://minutesof.com/bill-gurley/on/deepseek/ Everything Bill Gurley has said on deepseek: 3 verbatim quotes from February 2025, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:06 +0000 Gurley explains DeepSeek innovated by separating parameters to work with smaller counts faster than competitor https://minutesof.com/q/dd419e62-f500-4370-8d57-c84a06675948/ https://minutesof.com/q/dd419e62-f500-4370-8d57-c84a06675948/ “They were able to do that because they figured out a way to separate the parameters and work on things with smaller parameter counts faster, which no one else had done before.” — BG2 Pod Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:13:28 +0000 deepseek Gurley reports DeepSeek pricing is one twentieth of OpenAI on comparable API models. https://minutesof.com/q/f2fcae4d-e3e9-474b-9572-95f3a2e55fad/ https://minutesof.com/q/f2fcae4d-e3e9-474b-9572-95f3a2e55fad/ “if you look at the models that are apples to apples on the API right now, that that DeepSeek's pricing about one twentieth of OpenAI.” — BG2 Pod Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:13:28 +0000 deepseek Gurley reports 1,300 variants of DeepSeek R1 appeared on Hugging Face within days of release. https://minutesof.com/q/2fad991a-2404-440c-9dd6-13bf493b7e2b/ https://minutesof.com/q/2fad991a-2404-440c-9dd6-13bf493b7e2b/ “forty eight hours after r one was posted, they had 500 variants on Hugging Face. And today I pinged them this morning before we started, they're up to 1,300.” — BG2 Pod Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:13:28 +0000 deepseek