Starting Our Own OpenAI: A $5.6M Model, a $34B Yearly Company, and Training Is the Cheapest Line
A detailed cost analysis of launching an AI lab, based on DeepSeek-V3's reported training cost of $5.6 million and OpenAI's 2025 financials. The article reveals that the real cost of training includes far more than the final run, and that a single training run is only a fraction of the annual cluster cost.
DeepSeek
OpenAI
xAI
Allen Institute for AI
Hugging Face
Сбер
NVIDIA
Lambda
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