I don't think DeepSeek ever said it cost them $6m to create their product.

They said the cost of the additional training/refinements/enhancements it took to devastate the share prices of the US AI companies and Nvidia cost them $6m.

Discussion (30 points, 2 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936185

That doesn't answer the question of how much of that compute is used for their very established hedge fund business.

What a surprise. I said this from the start. Even their paper shows it scales proportionally with dataset and compute.