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> Anyone spending that amount of money isn’t just doing a side project. You're reciting a bunch of absolute numbers, without any sort of context at all. $5M is
by diggan 2y ago
> Anyone spending that amount of money isn’t just doing a side project.
You're reciting a bunch of absolute numbers, without any sort of context at all. $5M isn't the same for every company. For example, in 2020, it seems High Flyer spent a casual $27M on a supercomputer. They later replaced that with a $138M new computer. $5.5M sounds like something that could be like a side-project for a company like that, whose blood and sweat is literally money.
> But this degree of failure raises lots of questions whether such companies can ever be trusted.
This, I agree with though. I wouldn't trust sending my data over to them. Using their LLMs though, on my own hardware? Don't mind if I do, as long as it's better, I don't really mind what country it is imported from.
- sailingparrot 2y ago> that could be like a side-project for a company like that, whose blood and sweat is literally money. From the mouth of Liang Wenfeng, co-founder of both High Flyer and DeepSeek, 18 months ago: "Our large-model project is unrelated to our quant and financial activities. We’ve established an independent company called DeepSeek, to focus on this." https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-from-hedge-fund-to-frontier https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-from-hedge-fund-to-fr...
- ipaddr 2y agoIt's a side project called DeepSeek .
- octacat 2y ago5.5M is a single latest training run, if they would rent gpu-s in the cloud - from the paper.