Inside China Business is calling it, DeepSeek will likely be banned in the West. Refers to relevant articles, reports and data in the video.
In a rational market, this development would put a halt to the trillion dollar plans to build out datacenters, power plants to power them up and deploy AI models, and write down investments and market caps for these tech and chip companies. But no, a ban on low cost and effective AI is more likely and to push on with these plans, same as other industries like Huawei telecom equipment and Chinese EVs.
By any means necessary find a way to siphon money out of the real economy of production and consumption into private wealth, it's the American way. While the rest of the world will get affordable EVs, telecoms, and now AI, American consumers will have to fork out $20 a month, or $200 if you're doing business, to use these models.
How much is cost to develop is beside the point. The cat is out of the bag. Affordable and effective AI is here.