Sacks cites Dylan Patel's estimate that DeepSeek has 50,000 Hopper chips across different models.
“Dylan Patel, who's leading semiconductor analyst, has estimated that DeepSeac has about 50,000 hoppers. And specifically, he said they have about 10,000 h one hundreds, They have 10,000 h eight hundreds and 30,000 h twenties.”
Sacks says DeepSeek's compute cluster costs over $1 billion, contradicting the $6 million narrative.
“you add up the the cost of a compute cluster with 50,000 plus hoppers and it's gonna be over $1,000,000,000.”