If they did not open source it and instead just launched a payed (albeit much cheaper) closed model with similar performance to O1, would people trust them?
I don't think DeepSeek has any malicious intent, but boy oh boy am I glad the USA boys get wrekt by this (though I also lose money on stocks).
This is just poetic justice for the Orange Man's backwards 17th century policies.
But who's the baddies now? China is not waging war everywhere. Or threatening to steal Greenland... Or ruining our teenagers with social media.
Russia is currently invading Europe, to the tune of hundreds of thousands KIA. And Russia's invasion would be dead in the water without Chinese support.
To paraphrase the Chinese rep on the UN. If China indeed supported Russia, then this war would have ended by now.
This would make perfect sense if the goal is to devalue existing players more than it is capture the market.