DeepSeek's Software Weapon | How China Neutralized The Chip Ban

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#deepseek #chipwar #semiconductors DeepSeek just made its flagship AI model up to 85% faster without new chips — and it may have found the software bypass that neutralizes US export controls in the chip war. The US chip ban was built to starve China of AI hardware. DeepSeek's answer wasn't a bigger model or a smuggled GPU — it was DSpark, a speculative decoding engine that squeezes nearly double the work out of the restricted chips China already owns. In this briefing, we break down how the technology actually works, why DeepSeek open-sourced a money-making advantage alongside researchers at Peking University, what the company's own numbers do and don't prove, and why China's leading AI labs — from DeepSeek to Xiaomi — have quietly opened a second front in the US-China tech war: not smarter models, but cheaper ones. Software is becoming a substitute for silicon. And a blockade can stop a shipment, but it cannot stop a repository. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 – The chip war's blind spot 0:35 – Wha

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