Did MAGA get DeepSeek-kebabed?

On Monday, a strange thing happened. MAGArika, known the world over as America, found another country hogging the limelight. And for tech-cellent reasons, too. As it happens, of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, it had to be China who walked into Trump’s. Last week, when Chinese startup DeepSeek released a less capital-intensive AI assistant model, R1, Tech America let out an existential eek. R1 looks like ChatGPT, walks like ChatGPT, quacks like ChatGPT, but is not ChatGPT.