The Deepseek Moment

As the United States and China jostle for technological supremacy, each new innovation can shift market sentiment and redefine global perceptions of innovation potential. While everyone expected the immediate battleground would revolve around tariffs and high-profile corporate arrests, it has, in fact, manifested on digital and AI frontiers. Against this backdrop, China’s open-source large language models—DeepSeek—illustrates how quickly narratives of Western techno-hegemony can be upended. Read on.