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DeepSeek Changed Everything: What Silicon Valley Won't Admit About Chinese AI

DeepSeek-R1 was trained for ~$6M. GPT-4 cost an estimated $100M+. DeepSeek matched or beat it on most benchmarks. The uncomfortable explanation is not geopolitics — it's that the compute moat was never the moat.

April 10, 2026

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