The real question: What is the DeepSeek-R1 training cost? The $5.567M DeepSeek cost is missing the cost of training the R1 model to get distilled data. Table 9 in the DeepSeek v3 paper shows that the R1 distillation step is critical for quality. The R1 paper doesn't talk about

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