Quote from: WillyAp on February 08, 2025, 02:29:27 PM

I find it rather hilarious that people wish to replace the US$ without having a replacement. Sounds like BRICS, They face the dilemma that the trading partner wishes to be paid in US$ rather than real, or the next real.

But they have a replacement and they have been using it for the past couple of years! Over the years I've mentioned a lot of them like the ASEAN they are using their own fiat amongst the member states to make payments.

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on February 08, 2025, 04:54:58 PM

I don't understand quite a few things:

Why can't American AI companies get advantage of the DeepSeek's work, since it is open-source, and use their billions worth of resources to achieve a model that is bigger than DeepSeek?
What evidence do we have that the cost to train DeepSeek was actually $6 million?

I don't have any evidence apart from what they claim themselves but that is irrelevant because it is just a piece of the puzzle. As I pointed out in the OP, everything is cheaper in China. And another thing is that monopoly is broken... And that is the answer to your other question.

You see what is happening here in the field of AI was having monopoly. US regime wants to remain the only hegemony. To be one, they need to have monopoly and dominance like the used to have over the past 2-3 decades. For example in the oil market they had that monopoly and dominance through the Petrodollar scam. So they controlled the market and exerted their power that way on countries and their economies!

In the New World Order as US regime loses its power and is normalized, they need to try and keep some of it and remain a pariah. It can be gained in new fields/technologies like Artificial Intelligence. If you followed the news over the past couple of yaers, you could see they have been trying so hard to remain far ahead whilst imposing sanctions and restrictions on other countries preventing them from acquiring the technology (the first legislative act was introduced back in 2020 in US).
Kind of like nuclear technology where they acquired it and then made a weapon of mass destruction out of that technology, then started things like NPT and IAEA and a whole lot of restrictions for everyone else preventing them from even acquiring or using the technology itself. So today you can't even build a nuclear power plant to bring cheap electricity for your population without US regime's sanctioning you!

With that said, now that China has broken that monopoly very easily, in a short time and with a much less capital you can see that it is not just about some American company using the Chinese product. It's all about US regime having lost that monopoly.
So tomorrow if your country wanted to use AI technology, the US regime is not the only place to go to so they cannot force your country to first implement a dozen things (like removing energy subsidy causing inflation, recognizing pedophiles and other degenerates "right", buy their expensive LNG and not the cheap alternative, etc.) before they allow you to use it. You could just go elsewhere...