A mysterious AI company seemingly out of nowhere just shook the foundations of Silicon Valley. DeepSeek’s rise has Big Tech scrambling, costing NVIDIA $600B and forcing OpenAI and Google to take notice—all on a shoestring budget. Did US sanctions backfire and push China to innovate faster?

We also dive into the bold claim that AI could double human lifespans by the 2030s, plus how Hugging Face is stepping up by offering model hosting and initiating the reconstruction of DeepSeek’s reasoning model from scratch to uphold its mission of fostering open knowledge. The AI arms race is here—who wins?