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DeepSeek V4 proves that US sanctions didn't kill Chinese AI; they mutated it. By forcing engineers to abandon brute-force scale for efficiency, Washington accidentally created a formidable 'Lean AI' competitor that bypasses the need for restricted hardware.
DeepSeek's massive $1.6B Nvidia purchase in January 2026 signals the end of the 'efficiency only' narrative and the start of a brutal hardware-driven extinction event.
While Western tech giants pour $400B into AI infrastructure, DeepSeek has shattered the 'Compute Moat' with a model trained for just $5.6M. This analysis breaks down the math of the training efficiency gap.
With a reported training cost of just $5.6M, DeepSeek-V3 isn't just a GPT-4o competitor - it's an economic indictment of the closed-source model. Here is how MLA and MoE architectures are rewriting the rules of intelligence.