And then "China" (which is actually a bunch of super generous folks at DeepSeek) decides to release it all back to the US under a permissive MIT license.
They could've just exposed an API and kept the model to themselves but they didn't!
They could've not published their research paper, but they did, again and again - and each time they publish they discuss not just the techniques that DO work, but those that don't - saving researchers everywhere from loads of dead ends.
That is pure awesome. Thank you DeepSeek engineers for your gift to humanity.