DeepSeek Review: The $6M Training Claim That Rattled Nvidia and Rewrote AI Economics

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab that trained V3 and R1 for a fraction of what Western labs spend, open-sourced both models under MIT license, and briefly sent Nvidia's stock down 17% in a single day. We examine the technology, the economics, the privacy concerns, and what it actually means for teams considering using these models.