DeepSeek’s surprise breakthrough challenges the AI hyperscaler playbook: instead of brute-force scaling, they embraced frugality—using Mixture-of-Experts architecture, smarter data curation, and hardware-conscious optimization. This raises a key question: has AI’s future shifted from pure scale to efficiency? History favors incumbents, but constraints may now be the true engine of innovation.

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