Cheap tech from china is killing the American sector, or was it just bloated here because of lack of competition?
The primary impact of DeepSeek is on the economics not the techie stuff of AI. It is a chatbot as capable, and as flawed, as other current leading models, constructed at a fraction of the cost and from inferior technology.
DeepSeek is open source and free to use which will help democratize AI technology, enabling others, especially from outside America, to enter the market.
Anybody see the irony of China opening up the technology while US firms gag competition?
It has exposed the pompousness of some of the High Priests of Silicon valley