DeepSeek just dropped V4.
Open-source. API access. Available now.
And Silicon Valley is going through the same feeling it had in January all over again.
Here's why this release hits different.
When DeepSeek V3 launched, it shook the AI world.
Nvidia lost $600 billion in market cap in a single day.
The narrative that only trillion-dollar companies could build frontier AI cracked.
A Chinese lab with a fraction of the compute budget had matched models that cost 10x more to build.
Now V4 is here.
And it's open-source again.
That last word is the one that matters most.
Open-source means every developer on Earth gets access.
Every startup. Every researcher. Every competitor.
No API fees. No rate limits. No OpenAI subscription.
DeepSeek is doing to AI what Linux did to operating systems.
Giving away the infrastructure and betting the ecosystem rewards them anyway.
Here's the market implication nobody's pricing in yet.
Every dollar enterprises planned to spend on closed-model API calls just got a free alternative.
That's not just competitive pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic.
That's pressure on the entire AI monetization thesis that's been underwriting $1.4 trillion in U.S. credit markets.
Remember that number?
DeepSeek didn't just release a model.
They released a question:
If the best AI is free what exactly are we paying $1.4 trillion to build?
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