This Week in AI: DeepSeek Hits Chip Stocks, Meta Stays Pat on AI Spending, SoftBank Invests in OpenAI | PYMNTS.com

This Week in AI: DeepSeek Hits Chip Stocks, Meta Stays Pat on AI Spending, SoftBank Invests in OpenAI | PYMNTS.com

DeepSeek was the talk of Silicon Valley and Wall Street this week after it singlehandedly wiped nearly $600 billion of market value from Nvidia. Its $5.6 million cost to train its foundation models with only about 2,000 of slower H800 Nvidia chips brought concerns of lower future chip demand.

But questions started emerging about its pre-training cost. Bank of America analysts believe other costs were excluded from the total, while OpenAI thinks DeepSeek used a method called…

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