Architects' Tech Alliance

Feb 28, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

DeepSeek V3 & R1: How Their Training Costs Compare to Llama 3.1

The article analyzes DeepSeek’s latest V3 conversational model and R1 inference model, detailing their MoE architecture, training on H800 GPUs costing about $558 k, comparing compute expenses to Meta’s Llama 3.1, and showing that their API pricing is roughly one‑tenth of GPT‑4o for dialogue and one‑twentieth of OpenAI o1 for inference.