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The DeepSeek Disruption: AI, GEOPOLITICS AND Future of Open Source👑

Sarthak Sharma on January 31, 2025

Almost a year ago, I wrote an article "Rise of Local LLMs?", which was well received. Now feels like the perfect time to revisit this idea—especial...
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Shubham Arora

As the Auther has covered great inside and outsides related to open and private LLMs.. much appreciated...

Special mention to Fireship - what a great video content channel about tech

Now coming to this Deepseek and AI discussion... this is a great positive change... toward Job sector fear... why i am saying this... from last 3 - years AI was Top most discussion like nothing beyond it and people started setting up their limitation.. big business were making money from this fear... i am not saying deepseek will not do such thing in future... Who know how Github was baught by Microsoft... someone will definitely come in future to make this private...

But overall this is good change... to make people belive there is no end of your thought ... definitely changes will be there and we will need to adapt it... but not in fear.. but in taking it as new upgrade to become better and making world better

Good wishes... :)

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Sarthak Sharma

It is free if you go for Local models (No hidden cost as of now)

Give it a try.

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Shubham Arora

Okay let me try

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Sarthak Sharma

good luck

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Krzysztof Nowicki

Now look i don't really believe that deepseek cost less than 10 million USD to produce. But that's not important. The Chinese have tripped America at their own game by throwing out a truly accessible model for everyone, thereby dropping a bomb on the stock market. I have a feeling that it's only a matter of time before the bigger players open up sources. Right now, Open(closed)AI looks more suspicious than Chinese (espionage) Deepseek ;)

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Sarthak Sharma

True, what Elon musk couldn’t do china will. Making Open Ai truly Open. 😁

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Utkarsh Talwar • Edited

The cope from USA is so real. 😂
My favorite tweet on the levels of cope we're seeing.

Love the democratizarion of new tech!

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uratmangun

i think whether you like chinese or not, it gave me options when chatgpt or claude not available now i can just use deepseek, qwen, or hailuo thanks my chinese spy friend, already sending my data to chinese since 1969 coz i use xiaomi lol my cctv also v380 pro which is chinese brand 🤣

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Sarthak Sharma

🤣🤣🤣
Trust me most the tech is one way or another made in China 😁

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uratmangun

youre not even wrong even a little bit 🤣🤣

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Sarthak Sharma

Yup and so we are doing just fine. 😁
So their will be stealing either it’s china or USA or your own government 🙂

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Sarthak Sharma

Exactly my thoughts 🤣

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Alok Rawat

This article is 🔥! I really enjoyed the breakdown of DeepSeek’s impact and the broader discussion on open-source AI vs proprietary models. The way you connected this to past tech revolutions, like the space race, really adds depth to the discussion, and DeepSeek’s approach truly feels like a groundbreaking shift in AI..

Excited to see where this revolution leads! Thanks for sharing such an insightful piece. 🚀🔥

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Sarthak Sharma

Thanks Alok. 🫶

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Olga Braginskaya

This is a great breakdown of how open-source AI is changing the game! The comparison to the atomic race really hits home—big tech is fighting for control, but DeepSeek and others are proving that innovation can happen outside of billion-dollar labs.

I’m especially interested in the local AI angle. The cost, speed, and energy savings make a strong case for running models on personal hardware instead of relying on cloud-based systems. Do you think we’ll see a real shift toward decentralized AI, or will corporations find a way to keep control?

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Sarthak Sharma

Well, That comes down to people like you and me in the end. If we start building apps around Local LLM ecosystems, others will follow.

But here is why I think that offline LLMs will win. Thinking about future, Do you think robots will work great if they rely on cloud computing too much? Or let's say one day you want to wander around in forest with an AI helping you understand local plant spices, You would want it to work offline right?

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Christian A

Interesting article!
It is indeed cheaper for the world to host your own llm.

Cool to read this, because today I wrote an article about self hosting a deepseek-r1 distill at home

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Sarthak Sharma

Thanks

And great article mate, cheers 🥂

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Sandeep Parmar

@sarthology thanks for writing and sharing your thoughts.

What do you think happens to all $$ investment by hyperscalers and VCs in AI startups? I see the Dot-com bubble pattern here.

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Sarthak Sharma

Well I'm no Financial Expert But I can tell you one thing. Big tech may have thought that Big Money can act as business barrier for their AI. That gamble isn't working any more. If it's all actually a bubble, deepseek may have pinched it.

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Sandeep Parmar • Edited

Thanks! DeepSeek definitely challenges the myth of needing the best and most expensive compute for effective AI models.

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Sarthak Sharma

Exactly, Work smart.

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rajat sharma

Damn! 🔥 It was beautifully described each and everything be it AI, geopolitics everything. Great work. I’ll definitely try to workaround. Thank you _

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Sarthak Sharma

🙏