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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