Another way of looking at it is that DeepSeek is the result of some optimizations to allow the use of less performant chips. But if you want more powerful (OK, higher-resolution) results, isn’t it still the case that throwing a bucketload of Nvidia chips at it will achieve that? So yeah, the barrier for entry just dropped, but it’s still a sort of arms race where more horsepower is better.
Wow, that was like poetry…
Another way of looking at it is that DeepSeek is the result of some optimizations to allow the use of less performant chips. But if you want more powerful (OK, higher-resolution) results, isn’t it still the case that throwing a bucketload of Nvidia chips at it will achieve that? So yeah, the barrier for entry just dropped, but it’s still a sort of arms race where more horsepower is better.
They optimized for specific NVIDIA chips. Theres a lot of assembly level optimization that doesn’t backport.