@whowasthatmaskedman You may be right.

DeepSeek shook up the artificial intelligence landscape by proving that world-class AI models could be built and operated at a fraction of the cost of their American counterparts.

Apparently, none of the creators of Deepseek were educated in the US. The core leadership and the vast majority of DeepSeek’s research team were not educated in the US. DeepSeek is widely recognized in the tech industry for being built by "homegrown" Chinese talent.