DeepSeek’s AI Rise & FBI Probe DeepSeek has been making waves in AI, but their story is more complex than it seems. Founded in May 2023, DeepSeek spun out of High Flyer, a hedge fund that integrated AI into its trading strategies. High Flyer believed in AI so much that they secured 10,000 Nvidia A100 GPUs back in 2021, which helped set up DeepSeek for aggressive model development. Fast forward to now—DeepSeek claims their latest model was trained for $5.58M over 55 days on 2,000 GPUs. Sounds cheap, right? Well, that’s just the incremental training cost. It doesn’t include R&D, data curation, electricity, cooling, or infrastructure—SemiAnalysis estimates their AI budget at $500M per year. On the hardware side, reports suggest DeepSeek has around 50,000 Nvidia Hopper-class GPUs, including H800s and H20s, which have restricted performance to comply with regulations. But there’s an ongoing FBI investigation into the Singapore backdoor—the idea that GPUs sold to Singapore might be getting re-exported. If true, that could trigger even tighter chip export controls. So, what does this mean? DeepSeek’s AI models are powerful, but they’re a full year behind top players like Claude. While their team has done incredible engineering work, their ability to keep up depends on whether they can continue securing top-tier hardware. With U.S. regulators paying close attention, their future is uncertain.
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