What is happening with DeepSeek is Absolutely Beautiful for AI. It might end up being disastrous for America and America’s status as sole Super Power in the world.

At the same time, for AI and for people in AI, it is a beautiful leap forward. The fact that DeepSeek has made everything Open Source is beyond incredible

Reference: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/24/1110526/china-deepseek-top-ai-despite-sanctions/

Context: DeepSeek is an AI out of China that has a reasoning model that matches the performance of ChatGPT o1 (currently considered the best out of all the Western AI models)

Context 2: This is absolutely stunning. China was quite far behind the US. The US, realizing that AI might be the next ‘100 year super power’ creator, levied heavy AI restrictions and AI sanctions on all countries, especially China and India. Yet, China still conjured up DeepSeek

The ramifications of this are so Immense that I’m lost for words

The Law of Unintended Consequences – Context of What America was Trying To Do

The United States of America, and especially the Large Technology companies in the USA, are very good at screwing over everyone else via a combination of

1. Immense Profits and Immense Capital
2. Unethical Methods
3. Downright Illegal Methods
4. Lots of Virtue Signaling to distract people from all the Evil they are doing
5. Destruction of the Middle Class and the Upper Class – Trying to leave just ‘Lower Class’ poor people and a small section of extremely wealthy ‘Elites’. Think the movie Elysium
6. Regulatory Capture – Making Laws that give the Large Monopolies insane and unmatchable advantages
7. Gaslighting to pretend Regulatory Capture is the Opposite of what it is – Claiming something is to ‘help every day people’ when in reality it is to create and entrench monopolies and prevent new entrants
8. Economic Imperialism to prevent 2nd world and 3rd world countries from EVER becoming 1st world countries
9. Starting Wars when they can’t do Economic Imperialism

The list goes on.

The USA is very good at spinning what benefits America and screws over another country as ‘Helping The Country’.

All the moves America is making in AI are designed to

1. Help Large Technology companies and their monopolies become stronger
2. Prevent new companies from rising. A few ‘already risen’ companies like ChatGPT are OK
   • Worth mentioning that ChatGPT has Microsoft backing, Anthropic has Amazon backing, XAI has Elon Musk backing, and the other major players are Google and Facebook/Meta and Amazon
   • There are also no ‘small companies’ getting a chance to rise as Independent AI superpowers
3. Create Regulations so that no country or company other than USA and large USA technology companies can dominate AI

Now, you would assume that pretty much guarantees that other regions (Europe, China, India, Latin America, Canada) are completely screwed

DeepSeek shows The Law of Unintended Consequences

The Law of Unintended Consequences – What Actually Happened

Two absolutely insane things happened

1. DeepSeek, working with far fewer resources and with US limitations, managed to match the front running US AI technology company (OpenAI)
2. DeepSeek made everything Open Source. That means EVERYONE can pick up DeepSeek’s technology and run with it
   • It is not just DeepSeek that the US has to fight now
   • It’s EVERYONE
   • Including small US startups that America was, wrongly, trying to kill off because of bribes from the existing Large Technology Companies

Both of these are Absolutely Insane. There are only a handful of times in the ENTIRE existence of computers and computer science, where we have seen anyone do something this revolutionary.

Hopefully, there will be many more DeepSeeks and we get something that benefits All of Humanity, instead of something that just allows USA to extend their (somewhat crumbling) Empire by another 100 to 300 years.