The Chinese startup Ai Deepseek recently announced that his AI models will be very profitable – with some stars.
IN Post on XDeepseek boasted that his online services have a “profit margin” of 545%. However, this margin is calculated on the basis of “theoretical income”.
He discussed these numbers in more detail at the end Longer Post Github outlining his approach to achieving “higher bandwidth and lower delay”. The company wrote that when it looks at the use of its V3 and R1 models inside 24 hours, all use was settled using the R1 price, Deepseek would already have 562 027 USD in day by day revenues.
Meanwhile, the cost of leasing the needed GPU (graphics processing units) could be only USD 87,072.
The company admitted that the actual revenues are “much lower” for various reasons, reminiscent of night discounts, lower V3 prices and the fact that “only a subset of services is earning” and the application is available for free.
Of course, if the application and website weren’t free, and if other discounts weren’t available, the use would probably be much lower. Thus, these calculations seem highly speculative – more gesture towards potential future profit margins than the real shutter of the lower deepseek line.
But the company divides these numbers among wider debates on AI costs and potential profitability. Deepseek jumped into the highlight light in January, with a latest model, which allegedly suited O1 OpenAi at some references, despite the study with much lower costs, and in the face of American industrial restrictions, which prevent Chinese corporations from accessing the strongest systems. Technological stocks have dropped, and analysts asked questions about AI expenses.
Deepseek didn’t simply boost on Wall Street. His application briefly shifted the Openai chatgpt at the Apple App Store – although it then fell from general rankings and currently ranks sixth in productivity, for chatgpt, grok and Google Gemini.