But your estimate was explicitly based on running the 4-bit version. The full uncompressed Deepseek R1 model is 1.4TB. You'd need 16 h100s for this, and conside

But your estimate was explicitly based on running the 4-bit version. The full uncompressed Deepseek R1 model is 1.4TB. You'd need 16 h100s for this, and considering the new price for an 8 node cluster is about $350k, I think my estimate of $300k was pretty generous, assuming you'd buy used or liquidation or something. https://www.gmicloud.ai/en/blog/2026-cost-of-renting-or-uying-nvidia-h100-gpus-for-data-centers https://www.gmicloud.ai/en/blog/2026-cost-of-renting-or-uyin...