DeepSeek: A Sputnik Moment That No One’s Ready For Rewind to 1957. The Soviet Union lobbed a metal beach ball named Sputnik into space, and the United States collectively lost its mind. The assumption was that America was untouchable in the technological arms race. Sputnik shattered that illusion overnight, setting off decades of innovation and paranoia that culminated in the moon landing. Fast-forward to today. The West has been strutting around like the undisputed heavyweight champ of AI, with Nvidia and Big Tech sinking trillions into AI chips and cloud-based services. Then China comes along and drops DeepSeek, an AI framework that rivals OpenAI’s best—except it doesn’t need the absurdly expensive hardware. It runs on consumer devices. It’s open-source. It’s…
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