So, let's consider a few facts for a moment. Reuters reports that DeepSeek's development entailed 2,000 of Nvidia's H800 GPUs and a training budget of just $6 million, while CNBC claims that R1 "outperforms" the best LLMs from the likes of OpenAI and others.

Nvidia is touting the performance of DeepSeek’s open source AI models on its just-launched RTX 50-series GPUs, claiming that they can “run the DeepSeek family of distilled models faster than anything on the PC market.

Nvidia's H800 was launched in March 2023 and is a cut-down version of the H100 It is also significantly slower than Nvidia's H200 and AMD's Instinct range These artificial constraints have forced DeepSeek's engineering to innovate It was widely assumed that the United States would remain unchallenged as the global AI superpower,