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mike butcher is editor—at—large at technology news and analysis website, tech crunch.ained the imapct deepseek will have on the global ai race. this has really, um, totally sent a tsunami through the technology industry because most observers thought that in order to get artificial intelligence of this quality, then you would have to throw enormous amounts of computing power at it to literally crowbar out the aland make it work. and deep tech has come along and blown that out of the water. we thought that that it would have to be, like, a big american car with a lot of gas and a huge engine. but it turns out the chinese have produced a small little car that that burns it off the lights. and so it's really transformational. it's not just energy. it's the chips, obviously, which are such a vital component. how do you think have they done it? because openai spent $5 billion last year. this, if we're to believe the chinese, cost 6 million. yeah, well, i mean, the irony is that the trade export ban on high performing chips like nvidia's h100 might have led to this scenario