Low-Cost AI Development: Lessons from DeepSeek’s $557k Training Model
Introduction: The Rising Cost of AI and Why Efficiency Matters The AI industry is notorious for its astronomical costs. OpenAI’s GPT-3 reportedly cost over $4.6 million to train, while Google’s PaLM 2 required thousands of TPUs and millions in compute resources. For startups and researchers, these figures are prohibitive—until now. Enter DeepSeek, a Beijing-based AI research lab …