The Economics of DeepSeek Inference
cneuralnetwork · x · 2026-07-15
The post dismisses conspiracy theories around DeepSeek, opting for an inference economics breakdown using public metrics: at **10K t/s/GPU** and **$0.28/million tokens**, a single GPU could generate about **$88.3K** in annual revenue. The author extrapolates that hitting **$500M ARR** would require roughly **5662 GPUs**. The core takeaway is that business viability depends not on narratives, but on hard numbers: inference efficiency, pricing, and the actual GPU fleet required to sustain revenue.
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