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DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all (archive.today)
submitted 2 years ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Overall, when tested on 40 prompts, DeepSeek was found to have a similar energy efficiency to the Meta model, but DeepSeek tended to generate much longer responses and therefore was found to use 87% more energy.

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[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 years ago

The issue might be that the energy it saves in training is offset by its more intensive techniques for answering questions, and by the long answers they produce.

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