Sacks says the $6 million DeepSeek training cost claim should be debunked, corroborated by industry leaders.
“On this one, I'm with Palmer Luckey and Brad Gerstner and others, and I think this has been pretty much corroborated by everyone I've talked to that that number should be debunked.”
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.”
“Harvey is a great example of how American companies are building world-class specialized models: they took an open-source base (Kimi K3), post-trained it on legal data, and delivered state-of-the-art performance on legal benchmarks at a fraction of the cost of frontier models. https://t.co/YO2tE0O11f”