DON’T TRUST CHINA… YOU KNOW THE REST: China’s $5.6 Million AI Miracle Just Got a Lot Less Miraculous. “For nearly two years, DeepSeek’s $5.6 million number has helped sell one of the most dazzling stories in artificial intelligence. The Chinese company appeared to have built a frontier-level model for a fraction of what American firms were spending. A new federal cybersecurity advisory says the bargain came with a rather large missing bill.”
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