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January 29, 2025 19 mins

It’s like the wild, wild West.

This week, while I’ve been working on an exciting new project, I haven’t had an adequate amount of time to crank out a report. That said, I have been keeping tabs on the news, and, amidst all the hoopla and smackdown, there has been a very interesting development—namely, the CCP announcing an earthshaking new AI, DeepSeek.

News of this new high-speed, low-cost, LLM (Large Language Model) artificial intelligence rocked the stock markets on Monday, with headlines like these:

* Chinese startup DeepSeek rocks the AI industry

* China AI hopeful DeepSeek rocks Wall Street's magnificent seven

* China's DeepSeek rocks Wall Street with cost-efficient AI model

* Markets Get Deep-Sixed By DeepSeek

* What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company upending the stock market?

China “rocks” the markets, eh? Hmmm…

Of course, there were untold millions of Americans who rapidly, and dutifully, downloaded the “open source” DeepSeek — i.e. free to the public with allegedly transparent coding, so everyone can see how it works — for themselves.

Tech hounds were lauding the fact that a small Chinese startup had just upended the AI industry, that they’d made all their code public, and they were leading the way in liberating the masses from the grip of big tech. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says that DeepSeek’s open-source AI is “super impressive” and there are inumberable stories about how this development is a wakeup call for the warmongering imperialistic U.S. government and their greedy capitalist Big Tech friends.

At least that’s the story.

Once again, it appears China is acting as a “role model” for the world.

Fascinating.

Pushing the narrative even further, there were others who were pointing out the fact that U.S. semiconductor sanctions—which were ostensibly intended to slow the Chinese progress on artificial intelligence—may have actually backfired:

How the US may have unintentionally helped create an AI monster in China

Do you see it?

Tarriffs and sanctions are unfair, but fortunately, in the end, the poor, victimized Chinese, who were clearly being bullied and exploited by the mean ‘ol Americans, we’re able to overcome the adversity, make the U.S. look bad, knock the big dogs off the top, and achieve

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