DeepSeek is becoming more popular among US enterprises as companies look for cheaper alternatives to Anthropic and OpenAI
“DeepSeek takes top spot on 'trending' list as companies look for alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic, spending tracker's report says Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek took the top spot on a major US business spending index in June, surging as more companies swap out expensive American options like OpenAI and Anthropic in favour of more affordable alternatives.”
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From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.
Shorter Sam Altman: the AI bubble is popping.
Make no mistake, it's a hugely useful technology and uptake will continue, even accelerate. But the overinvestment in datacenters that we've been seeing is not sustainable; the business model of the big providers doesn't work, and is floating on VC money.
It's going to get worse. If customers are cutting back on token spend even at the artificially low prices they have now, what do you think they'll do when the big providers dramatically raise their rates in an effort to get to profitability?
Decades of the police being used as a paramilitary force, whose officers don't especially like or respect the people they are policing, none of that mattered. All it took was one powerpoint saying it's bad when colleagues call shops by slur names and now the beast is unleashed