<p>DeepSeek's new chain-of-thought AI model has Silicon Valley developers seething that a startup from — gasp — China could build something just as good, if not better, than what they've come up with for a fraction of the cost and with far superior energy efficiency. Exhibit A: this OpenAI programmer, Steven Heidel, who couldn't help injecting some old-fashioned China bashing to distract from the fact that his company just got smoked in a race it had a several year and multibillion dollar headstart in. "Americans sure love giving their data away to the CCP in exchange for free stuff," Heidel […]</p>