Okay, so DeepSeek has been making waves and that has led to a lot of misinformation, noise, and hype.
So today, we are going to bust the top 10 myths surrounding DeepSeek and go through the actual implications for everyday AI users.
A massive shout out to Ben Thompson for his DeepSeek.
Deep Dive.
He wrote a very comprehensive article that helped me distill this YouTube video.
And if you didn't get that second joke, this video is definitely for you.
Let's get started.
All right, myth number one, DeepSeek built their model for just $5.6 million.
That's very inaccurate because the $5.6 million only covers the final training run and excludes critical costs like infrastructure.
For example, they reportedly have 50,000 Hopper GPUs from NVIDIA, and that's worth around a billion dollars, showing their true investment scale is much larger.
