DeepSeek’s 545% AI Profit Margin: Cost Efficiency, Free Services & Geopolitical Challenges

DeepSeek’s 545% Theoretical Profit Margin: Rethinking AI Cost Efficiency Understanding the Financial Model DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, is stirring debate with its bold claim of a 545% profit margin calculated under perfect pricing conditions. In simple terms, if every AI computation task—commonly known as “inference”—were billed at a premium rate (referred to as R1 […]