Money, Drama, and China: Why AI’s Next Step Could Be Messy
DeepSeek’s open source, efficient AI model puts the billions spent to build similar technology in question.
Two headlines this week almost perfectly captured the weird moment the AI field is barreling toward. First, news broke that OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank, and others plan to invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure via a new, Trump-blessed initiative called Stargate. And then, Chinese startup DeepSeek released r1, an ine…