US Banned AI Chips to 1.4B hardworking People. Outcome: Deepseek, a Threat to US Hardware industry

When you restrict access to powerful AI hardware to a country of 1.4 billion people, highly educated, hard workers, great at math and coding, what outcome could you expect?

Turns out, the answer is more efficient software. And its name is Deepseek.
Sounds great!, unless you are a country where your biggest companies make AI hardware.

The U.S., home to tech giants like Nvidia, AMD, and Intel, has built much of its recent economic growth on the booming demand for AI chips. But with China’s breakthrough in creating Deepseek, a smarter, leaner AI that requires less hardware, the tables could turn.

How Sanctions Sparked Innovation

The U.S. government’s decision to ban the export of advanced AI chips to China was intended to slow down China’s AI development. Instead, it had the opposite effect. Faced with limited access to cutting-edge hardware, Chinese researchers and engineers doubled down on software optimization.

Deepseek is not new, but its latest models, Deepseek-v3 and Deepseek-R1 with 685B parameters, have surpassed OpenAI available models GPT-4o and GPT-o1, while using much less resources to train.

What now?

Nvidia stock is down a 15% since Friday. But what will all of this entail for the average consumer?
If Nvidia cannot sell AI machines at a 1.000% profit, this could mean the return of affordable and cost effective consumer GPUs!
That’s all good news, granted that this does not spark a bit of a crisis, and you are not fired from your IT job or your S&P500 investment plummets.

Despite the potential financial shake-ups, there’s a bright side to all of this: we’re likely to see a surge of better, more advanced open-source AI models in the coming months. Organizations around the world, inspired by breakthroughs like Deepseek, will push the boundaries of what’s possible, and that’s something everyone can benefit from.

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