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Dario Amodei challenges DeepSeek’s $6 million AI narrative: What Anthropic thinks about China’s latest AI move
Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei reveals DeepSeek's Chinese AI breakthrough actually cost billions, not $6 million, challenging market narratives and explaining why AI development remains resource-intensive despite engineering improvements.
The narrative that quickly emerged suggested that DeepSeek had fundamentally disrupted the economics of building advanced AI systems, supposedly achieving with just $6 million what American companies had spent billions to accomplish. But amid the market turbulence and breathless headlines, Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic and one of the pioneering researchers behind today’s large language models, published a detailed analysis that offers a more nuanced perspective on DeepSeek’s achievements. His blog post systematically dismantles both the panic and enthusiasm that followed DeepSeek’s announcement, showing how the company’s $6 million model training cost fits within the steady march of AI development.
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