DeepSeek says that their coaching solely involved older, much less powerful NVIDIA chips, but that declare has been met with some skepticism. To understand this, first it's essential know that AI model prices may be divided into two categories: coaching prices (a one-time expenditure to create the model) and runtime "inference" costs - the price of chatting with the model. This slowing seems to have been sidestepped somewhat by the advent of "reasoning" fashions (although after all, all that "c...