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But this costs a great deal of money.
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Nvidia's Blackwell chip - the [world's](https://madamzolasfortune.smartonlineorder.com) most effective [AI](https://ordbildning.com) chip to date - costs around US$ 40,000 per system, and [AI](https://git.vhdltool.com) companies often require tens of thousands of them. But already, [AI](https://oncob2b.co.kr) business have not actually had a hard time to bring in the required financial investment, even if the sums are huge.
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DeepSeek might change all this.
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Money concerns
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