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Is DeepSeek Profitable? What Low-Cost Models Change About Frontier AI Economics
DeepSeek has changed the industry's cost assumptions, but lower training and inference costs do not automatically prove bottom-line profitability.
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DeepSeek has changed the industry's cost assumptions, but lower training and inference costs do not automatically prove bottom-line profitability.
DeepSeek-Coder trained open code models from 1.3B to 33B parameters on a two-trillion-token project-level corpus, combining code-heavy pretraining, long context and infilling during the rapid open-model race of 2023–2024.