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Has everyone lost their collective minds?
To be clear, I can’t get on DeepSeek and challenge the R1 model.
In my world, that’s a lot of money.
In the realm of AI, it’s nothing.
Meta will reportedly spend $65 billion on AI training this year alone.
Now along comes DeepSeek, saying it did the same thing for, essentially, pennies.
Suddenly every investor wondered if they’d made the wrong bet.
A matter of trust
As I mentioned, DeepSeek is a Chinese app.
DeepSeek makes no bones about being Chinese.
In the App Store, its listing is full of Chinese-language characters.
The app doesn’t even include multimodal support.
It’s just text.
Listening to one activist investor tout a new product for undefined reasons is never a good idea.
Do we know if he has a stake in this company?
Do we know if he has an axe to grind with US-based AI companies?
That still doesn’t wipe out its Chinese parentage and continuing ownership.
It doesn’t matter how good it is; this app will not survive in the current US climate.
I’m not convinced though that’s what’s coming.
There is no reason to trust DeepSeek and its backers' claims.
I think the truth about the time and financial investment it took them to get here will come out.
And then DeepSeek and R1 will go through its own kind of reset.
