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DeepSeek just taught the AI industry 5 hard lessons

Have American tech companies completely misunderstood what they should do with Large Language Models? It certainly looks that way.

Here was perhaps the biggest blind spot in Silicon Valley: Just because American companies have traditionally been at the head of the class when it comes to tech innovation, it was generally assumed that things would always stay that way. China was a manufacturing powerhouse, and software engineers are increasingly in high demand there, but America has the design know-how and the entrepreneurial spirit that will win out every time, so no major changes are needed. If anything, the protectionist attitude of CHIPS seems to have woken a sleeping giant in China's homegrown AI infrastructure development; DeepSeek needed to work on fewer and less elaborate chipsets.

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