That's the ratio the widely published numbers give [1]. One does not have to believe the numbers [2], but those who do believe them are then justified to conclude that there's no moat.
Which numbers you believe is of course going to affect whether you think there's a moat or not. That's largely orthogonal to your TSMC/Samsung analogy I responded to. If you think the "moatists" are wrong because they believe the wrong numbers, that's fine, but then there's no need for the analogy.
That's the ratio the widely published numbers give [1]. One does not have to believe the numbers [2], but those who do believe them are then justified to conclude that there's no moat.
Which numbers you believe is of course going to affect whether you think there's a moat or not. That's largely orthogonal to your TSMC/Samsung analogy I responded to. If you think the "moatists" are wrong because they believe the wrong numbers, that's fine, but then there's no need for the analogy.
[1] https://galileo.ai/blog/llm-model-training-cost
[2] https://medium.com/@theiand/how-can-deepseek-a-5-6-million-l...
But fundamentally, why is their cost 1/20 and is it sustainable in the next 10 years of competition?
Now that is a good and interesting question! Hopefully a "no-moatist" will share their reasoning.
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Please just say what you want to say.