DeepSeek may be just the tip of the iceberg. But it is the iceberg that is going to sink the Titanic.
Banning DeepSeek is an exercise in futility now and allowing it to propagate its free to use platform worldwide is doing great harm to the greedy AI investors in the USA. The AI developers in the USA are going to lose their clout, their massive investments decimated and may well discourage further investments in an uncertain future.
Talk of another US$500 billion being thrown into the sector by the USA does not rattle Chinese AI developers one bit. China AI developers now know they will just need a fraction of such subsidies to garner the same impressive result. That same mentality is not lost on other AI developers around the world. Why pay an arm and a leg to use USA's AI apps when there is a free to use app that is just as good, if not better.
Oh, just not forgetting that those entities buying over Tik Tok are reported to be talking to Trump, not the owners of Tik Tok which is Bytedance. What is happening?