What ‘Deepseek’ is really all about

A DAY after becoming US president again, Donald Trump announced that the US is organizing another private conglomerate, ‘Stargate,’ involving the country’s leading tech companies with an initial budget of $500 billion to further develop and ensure US dominance in the field of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI). He added the Stargate project would initially create “100,000 jobs.” Easily.

Without a doubt, AI is the ‘wave of the future’ with even the ‘World Economic Forum’ (WEF), seeking to corner AI for the benefit of its members, all of them representing the private, profit-centered interest of globalist like Bill Gates.

Unfortunately, Trump’s announcement failed to generate the same level of interest and enthusiasm that greeted his previous actions and statements on illegal immigration, scrapping of the DEI programs and US withdrawal from the Paris Accord and the WHO, among others. Compared to these actions, the reception on Stargate is generally “mild.”

This is because on his taking office last January 20, China also announced the official launch of its own AI software, ‘Deepseek’ that all “tech wizards” and tech companies, even those based in Silicon Valley, concede as the “best” so far out there.

What takes the “cake” further is that Deepseek has been released ‘FREE,’ that is, as an ‘open source’ that anyone, anywhere in the world, can download, upgrade, and repurpose to suit their specific needs free of charge.

I have already downloaded the Deepseek app and is already amazed at how it gives an answer—credible and believable—as fast as I sent my question.

And given the cost of building Deepseek, about $6 million, and employing only some 200 employees, the question is whether US tech companies are ripping off everyone and fooling Trump?

Now that Deepseek is already “out there” and again, for free, the $500 billion investment promised by the US Big Tech smells to most people as a “scam.”

I mean, if you are being charged by ‘Open AI’ and ‘ChatGPT’ of Elon Musk (and now with Microsoft of Bill Gates) for a minimum of 2 to 5 dollars to use their more “advance” software but you can get the same “service” for free thru Deepseek, the choice is clear. Why pay when it is free?

Already, the free launch of Deepseek threatens to disrupt the operations and profitability of many stock-listed tech companies at NASDAQ and Wall Street — thru bankruptcy.

The implication is that these companies would lose their “appeal” to investors since a freely available program would prove ‘passé’ any of their so-called “advantages.”

The effort by Trump to dominate AI comes hand-in-hand with the US effort, crossing both Democrat and Republican administrations over the years, to neuter China in the field of technology thru sanctions, criminality, and outright ban on advance computer chip, chip-making equipment and the latest in computer technology.

We have seen this many times, from the illegal arrest in 2018 of Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou, daughter of Huawei founder, Reng Zhengfei, by Canada on the order of the US, to banning NVDIA, ASML of The Netherland, Samsung of South Korea, and Taiwan’s TSMC, from selling advance ‘nanochips’ and chip-making equipment, to China.

Thus, it also comes as a shock to the US that China managed to build and roll-out Deepseek using “old chips” and “outdated” Western-based technology.

As some tech leaders described it, Deepseek is China’s “wonderful gift” to the world.

And again, it shows that sanctions and denial of opportunity to everyone else is now “the mother of innovation” especially for a country like China that persists on upholding its sovereignty in all respect.

Deepseek is another demonstration of the human spirit breaking free.