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DeepSeek’s inference efficiency sets a new floor for your unit economics
◆ 95RelevanceOn a story from Latent Space2d ago
DeepSeek’s 80% margins and 81-day payback period prove that SOTA inference is no longer a low-margin commodity. You must decide if your current infrastructure strategy can match this level of capital efficiency.
Takeaways
- DeepSeek generates $22m daily with 80% margins on open inference.
- An 81-day payback period makes aggressive hardware scaling financially viable.
- Open-source stacks are now delivering SOTA performance with elite unit economics.
Read the original at latent.space
[AINews] DeepSeek DeepInfer: Open Source SOTA Inference running 155T toks/day/cluster making $22m/day at ~80% margin for a 81 day payback
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