#DeepSeekImpact DeepSeek-R1: The AI Side Hustle That Shocked the World
I. WHAT IS DEEPSEEK-R1? 🤔
Picture this: a small team of Chinese developers decides to work on a "fun" AI side project. Just a weekend later, their seemingly harmless experiment managed to:
1. Wipe out hundreds of billions from the US stock market 💸
2. Pull the crypto market down with it 🪦
3. Overtake ChatGPT as the #1 app on the App Store 🥋
So, what exactly is DeepSeek-R1? It’s a revolutionary reasoning AI, not just your typical responsive bot. Unlike conventional models that simply spit out pre-scraped internet data, this one processes and reasons like a human. Impressive, right?
II. WHY IS DEEPSEEK-R1 CAUSING CHAOS?
1. Free and Accessible: Users get 50 messages per day for free, and even heavy API usage costs next to nothing.
2. Hardware Agnostic: With US restrictions on Nvidia chips, the developers engineered this AI to run on any hardware—even an iPhone.
3. Highly Competitive: In just two months and under $10M, this model is giving multi-billion-dollar giants a run for their money.
And here’s the kicker: it’s open-source. You can run it, modify it, and experiment with it however you like.
“But wait, how did a single AI crash the global markets?”
Stick around for part two, where I’ll break it all down 👇
Tu Michael - Crypto Investor since 2017