DeepSeek's Deep Impact on Wealth Creation and Wealth Destruction

How DeepSeek’s Open-Source AI Is Leveling the Playing Field for Small Businesses and Leveling the Portfolio of Passive Investors

DeepSeek is Disrupting the AI Industry

In the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence, innovation is often tied to sky-high costs and cutting-edge hardware. Yet, DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has flipped this narrative with its groundbreaking AI model, DeepSeek-R1, developed for under $6 million using less advanced hardware. Rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Llama have dominated the conversation, but DeepSeek’s low-cost, high-performing model is shaking up the industry and challenging U.S. dominance. In the last 24 hours more than $1 Trillion evaporated from the market caps of darling stocks of the last two years like NVIDIA and MSFT, while unleashing trillions of dollars of new potential opportunity and power for small business owners at fractions of a penny on the dollar.

In today’s newsletter, we’ll break down the impact of this disruptive innovation, the opportunities it unlocks, and the practical steps business leaders can take to stay ahead.

The Rise of DeepSeek

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