five guys at an American startup are trying to pull off what DeepSeek did to Silicon Valley None of them have an AI background, a PhD, or worked at OpenAI. that’s what happens when investors realize American AI labs are spending way too much money… and something like that is about to happen again instead of building from scratch, they took an existing Chinese model and spent $300k training it to handle white collar work and they’re releasing the weights so companies can run it on their own servers instead of paying a provider every time they use it ironically, China’s headstart in cheap models is giving tiny American startups a way to compete with companies worth hundreds of billions