DeepSeek released a less capital-intensive AI assistant model, R1, Tech America let out an existential eek. R1 looks like ChatGPT, walks like ChatGPT, quacks like ChatGPT, but is not ChatGPT.
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Patriotic Americans may write DeepSeek off as another Chinese knock-off of a great American product. But the markets have a mind of their own that can smell four-lettered words like ‘hype’ trying to pass off as three-lettered ones like ‘hip’. It’s like Elon Musk suddenly discovering Maruti’s latest model being indistinguishable from the Cybertruck – except that it costs 1/20th the Tesla Übermenschmachine. Obviously, Nvidia’s GPU chips with salsa dip seem less crispy now.
Americans, by the hordes, are running after DeepSeek. Last weekend, it became the No. 1 most-downloaded app in Apple’s App Store, toppling ChatGPT, which has since hit the fan. What now? Trump throwing in DeepSeek along with TikTok for a bidding war to ensue for an apple-pie or microsoftie American company to buy and keep MAGArika free from Fu Manchu? But the impact has been much more than just about a Chinese tech company knocking down the Valley by a Napa or two. The last time MAGArika was so gobsmacked was when (some) MAGArikans found out that Columbus didn’t actually discover America.
Apparently, folks were already living there, the way