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President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence (AI) czar, David Sacks, is pointing to evidence that China’s DeepSeek AI startup spent a lot more money developing its models than has been reported.
DeepSeek sent the U.S tech sector into turmoil on Monday after reporting that it had spent only $5.567 million to train its DeepSeek-V3 AI model, which is purportedly competitive with some AI models developed in the United States that cost billions.Â
David Sacks, CEO of Zenefits, speaks during 2016 TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, California, September 13, 2016. (Reuters/Beck Diefenbach / Reuters)
“New report by leading semiconductor analyst Dylan Patel shows that DeepSeek spent over $1 billion on its compute cluster,” Sacks wrote on X on Friday. “The widely reported $6M…
