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The timing seems to indicate that the mainstream press publicity over DeepSeek R1 was due to an NVidia short recommendation that had just gone viral, not about the disclosed cost (which related to V3, not R1).

However, there also seems to have been some genuine panic at OpenAI, maybe elsewhere too, over DeepSeek R1 since not only did they come close to matching the performance of o1, but they also described exactly how they did it (apparently very similar to what OpenAI had done, judging from the reaction), and therefore killed any competitive lead that OpenAI - who had been working on it for a long time - may have thought they had.