What did her with the American Big Techs billionaires and with was a historical malvade.
On January 20, the new president announced in his inaugural speech: “From now on, the American decline ended.” And promised the beginning of a “golden age” to the country.
Among the guests, applauding him, were the billionaires Elon () Musk, Mark () Zuckerberg, Jeff () Bezos, Tim () Cook, Sundar () Pichai and Sam () Altman.
With the way of those who didn’t want anything, that day, the company, from Chinese Liang Wenfeng, released its R1 app. He then republished a 22 -page article signed by 193 (all Chinese) authors and the structure of his program.
The DeepSek R1 was launched on the day of the case of trump of the thought case. China has done something similar in 2023, on the eve of a visit by the US Secretary of Commerce.
According to DeepSek, the R1 cost $ 5.6 million. The artificial intelligence programs of US companies cost between $ 100 million and $ 1 billion. R1 is free, while some similar Americans charge users at least $ 20 a month.
On the 25th, the R1 was the lowest application in and in another 50 countries. Two days later, the seven major American companies, known as “The Magnificent Seven” (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Tesla), lost $ 1 trillion in market value.
The CEOs of five of them were in the inauguration scene and only Apple did not mingled. Nvidia chips manufacturer, a little princess of the artificial intelligence market, took the biggest blow, with a loss of $ 589 billion, the largest in the history of Wall Street. Lost $ 5.3 billion. As actions go up and down, Nvidia recovered part of the fall.
The secret of R1 was that a cost unit that in the Big Tech market is worth $ 15, in DeepSeek it comes out for only 55 cents. In addition, R1 is free and open to programmers around the world. Microsoft and Dell have already incorporated R1 into its platforms.
In the coming months, articles and books will tell what happened before the January 20. One thing is certain: Big Techs billionaires knew that DeepSeek existed and it was not Chinese in garage background.
Since 2023 she has published her codes. Since May 2024 she showed that she did a lot, spending less. In the world artificial intelligence ran the murmur that DeepSeek had a “secret weapon.” In September, she released the V2.5 version, which, within a few days, was among the leading artificial intelligence applications with open codes. The first version of R1 is November 2024.
American billionaires believed in their own superiority. They made a mistake. Faced with the threat of China’s technological advances, they believed in the imposition of commercial barriers and, during the Biden government, embarked chips sales. They made mistakes again.
On January 20, they showed themselves close to power. They violated the rule of discretion of the magnates of the true golden times of the United States. John D. (Standard Oil) Rockefeller, Andrew (Usseel) Carnegie and JP Morgan, the bank’s, never adorned presidential parties in Washington.
(Asked which billionaires were in possession of Trump, DeepSeek said he had no information about future events, clarifying that his knowledge extends “until October 2023”. Once the same question was made to Google, he offered dozens of links and the first said:.)
Sputnik moment
Last Sunday afternoon, technological guru Marc Andreessen described DeepSeek’s impact on the US market: Sputnik moment.
Andreessen’s comment reflected the panic that took over the United States in 1957, after the Soviet Union placed the first artificial satellite, weighing 83 pounds. In 1961 came humiliation. Yuri Gagarin entered orbit and revealed, “The earth is blue.”
At least nine American rockets had exploded, but President John Kennedy announced that Americans would go to the moon before the end of the decade.
At the other end, the Russian regime did not reveal that it had lost seven rockets, an astronaut and more than 100 people killed in a burst in its space center, including a marshal. In 1966, Sergei Korolev, father of the Russian space program, died during surgery. Months later the astronaut Sergei Komarov was charred upon returning to Earth.
Americans and Russians wonders in space, but the game turned in 1969. Soviet rockets continued with any flaws and on July 3, N-1 exploded in Kazakhstan, destroying part of the release base.
Two weeks later, three astronauts departed from Kennedy cable. On July 20, Neil Armstrong stuck the American flag in the sea of tranquility.
The space race was finished and Sputnik became a thing of the past.
Another competition began, with the Americans in front. Three months later, the United States Department of Defense secretly created the first computer network called Arpanet. It was the embryo of the internet.
Anyone who heard the Sputnik beeps and believed in the American decline wasted his time.
2015 x 1936
In May 1936, the English mathematician Alan Turing published in the London Mathematical Society magazine his article entitled “About Computable Numbers”. In it, it foreshadowed the “universal machine”.
A year later, he wrote to his mother, complaining that the magazine had received only two requests for copies of the article. Turing’s “universal machine” was the computer. Homosexual, he was sentenced to undergoing hormonal treatment and killed in 1954. In 2013, a rare copy of his 1936 article was bought by 205 thousand pounds ($ 1.5 million in today’s quote). Since 2024 your portrait has been on the back of the 50 -pound note.
The world of 2025 is another. The academic article that described Deepseek’s R1 model left in early January and had about 200 authors, all Chinese. In less than a month the artificial intelligence application has been downloaded more than 3 million times.
