#DeepSeekImpact

DeepSeek-R1: The AI Side Hustle That Just Shook the World

I. WHAT THE HECK IS DEEPSEEK-R1? 🤨

Imagine this: A small group of Chinese developers thought, “Hey, let’s make a fun AI side project.” A weekend later, their “little project” managed to:

1/ Nuke hundreds of billions from the US stock market 💸

2/ Drag the crypto market down with it 🪦

3/ Drop-kick ChatGPT off the #1 App Store spot 🥋

So… what’s the deal with DeepSeek-R1? Turns out, it’s got everyone sweating because it’s:

• Insanely efficient

• Nearly free

• And kind of amazing

Here’s the scoop:

Launched just last Monday, DeepSeek-R1 is a reasoning AI (not your basic responsive AI). Instead of regurgitating pre-scraped internet data, it thinks through answers like a human. Fancy, right?

II. WHY DID DEEPSEEK CAUSE A GLOBAL FREAKOUT?

1/ Free-ish: 50 messages/day for free, and even heavy API use costs peanuts.

2/ Runs anywhere: US banned Nvidia chips, so the devs built this beast to work on whatever hardware they could find—yes, even an iPhone.

3/ Outperforms big names: Two months, <$10M, and this thing is rivaling models that cost a fortune.

Oh, and it’s open-source. Run it. Tweak it. Flex it. The world’s your playground.

“Ok, Tu Michael – but how did one Large Language Model wipe billions of dollars from capital markets??”

Follow me and read part 2 to find out 👇

Tu Michael - Crypto Investor since 2017