For one dollar, DeepSeek's AI will write you more words than all seven Harry Potter books put together. And DeepSeek just revealed it still pulls in serious money at that price. Each chip in one of its clusters brings in about $38 an hour, and renting that kind of chip runs about $8. Both of those numbers use DeepSeek's off-peak prices, the half-price hours. They come from a document DeepSeek posted today alongside DeepInfer, the software it uses to run its own AI, which it just made free for…

DeepSeek@deepseek_ai4d ago

🚀 Introducing DeepInfer, our in-house inference framework, now fully open source! Powering DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at scale with high throughput and low latency. We’re sharing our production stack to help the community lower compute costs, reduce energy use, and make AI more affordable. 🔗 http://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepInfer 1/4