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This week, AI investors had a bit of a panic moment. The culprit? A Chinese AI startup called DeepSeek, which claims its open-source large language model (LLM), R1, can compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama, and Google’s Gemini—but at a much lower cost. That was enough to send sto...

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Alright, let’s talk about DeepSeek—the latest AI company that’s got everyone either panicking or strategizing. A few weeks ago, some of the biggest names in tech lost billions in market cap, and fingers pointed straight at this Chinese startup. Why? Because DeepSeek allegedly trained a cutting-edge ...

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