China’s DeepSeek and the Criminal World of American AI
Part 1 – The Emergence
By Larry Romanoff

The Emergence of DeepSeek
DeepSeek’s Innovative Advantages
Everybody was Surprised
Some Bad News – DeepSeek was a “side project”
More Bad News – Stock Prices
Still More Bad News – DeepSeek is free
Yet Still More Bad News – Other Chinese firms are doing this too
This is an essay in three parts. Most readers today are already familiar with the story of the emergence of DeepSeek so I won’t spend much time reiterating the event. This isn’t so much the story of DeepSeek as it is the revelation of the underlying circumstances of American AI development, details which the Western media have conveniently ignored and which no other writers seem to have noticed. This is also an essay documenting that our world is seldom as we imagine it to be. See Parts 2 and 3.