DeepSeek as China’s Trojan Horse to Undermine U.S. AI Giants

It turns out the Chinese AI model was trained on ChatGPT’s responses—some of its outputs are nearly identical, and when asked “Who are you?”, it even replied, “I’m ChatGPT, created by OpenAI” 😂. Add to that:

• massive amounts of citizen data collected by the Chinese government,
• Chinese students scattered across Western companies quietly collaborating with the government,
• legions of government hackers specialized over decades in stealing technology from Western firms,
• unlimited government funding for AI (just the hardware, smuggled illegally from Nvidia, probably cost at least $2 billion),
• and government policies pushing millions of students into technical universities (and with numbers like that, some hidden gems are bound to emerge).

And then they made DeepSeek open source and are aggressively marketing it as a “small, cheap project by a hobbyist nerd” to make global investors doubt the big U.S. AI companies and slow down the cash flow. That also helps curb the U.S. vacuuming up the world’s top AI specialists.

But hey, this cutthroat competition is perfect for Europe. We’re getting the most powerful AI models for free while barely investing in their development xD