{"id":962802,"date":"2025-09-19T08:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962802"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:28:12","slug":"chinas-deepseek-says-its-hit-ai-model-cost-just-294000-to-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/19\/chinas-deepseek-says-its-hit-ai-model-cost-just-294000-to-train\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294,000 to train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese AI developer DeepSeek said it spent $294,000 on training its R1 model, much lower than figures reported for US rivals, in a paper that is likely to reignite debate over Beijing&#8217;s place in the race to develop artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>The rare update from the Hangzhou-based company &#8211; the first estimate it has released of R1&#8217;s training costs &#8211; appeared in a peer-reviewed article in the academic journal Nature published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese AI developer DeepSeek said it spent $294,000 on training its R1 model, much lower than figures reported for US rivals, in a paper that is likely to reignite debate over Beijing&#8217;s place in the race to develop artificial intelligence. The rare update from the Hangzhou-based company &#8211; the first estimate it has released of R1&#8217;s training costs &#8211; appeared in a peer-reviewed article in the academic journal Nature published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}