[ Flash ] China has just annihilated predatory American techno-capitalism

While Open IA, to which we owe Chat GPTis in the process of moving from the status of a non-profit foundation to that of a commercial company and therefore for-profit (admire the way it monopolizes donations amounting to several hundred million dollars) and is committed to lock certain features by making them proprietary, the Chinese start-up DeepSeek has just published the entire source code of its artificial intelligence engine, more efficient and 96% cheaper to run (meaning less demanding in computing capacity and therefore in electricity and hardware investment) than Chat GPT. Open source sous license MITto mark the arm of honor given to Uncle Sam and the rest of the West live in Davos this week.

To understand the ins and outs of this major, even Copernican, fact, you must first understand what open source is. and what an AI engine is.

Open source consists of making the source code available of software. This source code can then be used “for free” since everyone has access to it. Those who wish to modify and improve it can do so as they wish within the limits and conditions stipulated by the open source license, it is up to them to also make their modifications freely available.

Since the code is public, anyone who has the skills can inspect it line by line and know what it does. Security risks such as big bugs, vulnerabilities, back doors etc. are thus very quickly detected and corrected. Open source means trusting collective intelligence, more effective than managerial hierarchy and voracious and violent elitism.

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The most well-known open source software is Linux, which is an operating system core, fundamental software that manages a computer’s hardware resources and provides common services for software applications. It was developed by Linus Thorvald who was inspired byUNIXa multitasking, multiuser operating system used primarily in server environments.

On this core, a multitude of developers have come to graft components such as graphical interfaces, device managers (for network cards, graphics cards) etc. Linux distributions, that is to say a complete and functional operating system including the core and its components, are numerous (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Lunux Mintthe most famous being… Android, installed on 82% of smartphones) and available for free. If paid versions exist, then you are not charged for the free software license but for software maintenance services, intended for critical uses (mainly business and administration servers). Or they are donations to support the work of the development team, often volunteers.

Application developers also do not have to pay the owner of the source code for the right to develop and distribute their applications as is the case on Microsoft Windows, MacOS, IOS and Android in its Google versions, who added many proprietary bricks.

If a company like Microsoft has reaped enormous and growing profits and still continues to do so, it is because its original operating system, MS-DOS, and today Windows, are proprietary, which obliges all manufacturers to PC (therefore users) to purchase licenses from it (i.e. the revocable right to use the software and not ownership of the software). All developers must purchase a developer toolkit and pay for distribution of their applications. Monopoly and therefore rent situation. This is how certain large American technology companies have been able – and still can with smartphones – to racketeer the entire world for decades.

Do you remember server operating systems such as Windows NT and Domino Server from Lotus (IBM), infamous dung that were sold to you dearly in the 1990s and 2000s? They have been replaced by Linux. Linux being free and more efficient, it holds a market share of more than 80%. Almost all cloud servers run on Linux.

This is why Microsoft, IBM and others started investing in cloud infrastructure. Because it is by providing storage and hosting services that you can still make money, since Linux has destroyed the market for paid licenses for server systems.

An artificial intelligence engine is not that different from the core of an operating system. By making its source code public, DeepSeek has just made it almost impossible to sell licenses for other artificial intelligence engines, starting with Chat GPT. This is also why Elon Musk, who was careful not to say it, made Grok available for free use on As for Google’s Gemini engine, it is so full of biases and dysfunctional that the Palo Alto giant is in irremediable trouble it seems.

This means one thing and one thing only: America’s predatory AI techno-capitalism is already dead and buried. The Gafam are weighed down. Donald Trump may spend $500 billion, but that won’t change anything – other than throwing $500 billion out the window. We will always have more interest in using an open source engine whose operation is transparent, more secure and development is faster with a wider choice of “distributions” and functionalities.

Another huge problem for the techno-mafiosi across the Atlantic, the USA is also outdated in terms of hardware, the latest generation chips necessary to run AI engines on a large scale. By Taiwan and by China. Nvidia, the only American semiconductor manufacturer present in this sector, will not be up to the task.

Of Europe, is it really worth talking about? The servile and corrupt ringleaders who run it prefer, in order to cling to their power, to regulate (censor) content in such a Kafkaesque and ineffective way rather than attaching themselves to what matters, the total sovereignty of each European on its data and that of each European country on its infrastructures…

France is the only country in the world which has 30 years of unified health data on its entire population thanks to the Carte Vitale. Of inestimable value: without data, AI is useless. So let the Americans plunder us with the complicity of our leaders.

However, some parliamentarians are doing their job and struggling. So far in vain. Valid for digital, for energy, for agriculture, for industry…

“For around twenty years, we have lost this idea of ​​strategic information”

By making DeepSeek open source, China has just rendered a huge service to humanity. Not us who say it but Marc Andreesen, major figure in Silicon Valley and creator of Netscape, one of the first internet browsers.

China’s advance in AI is not new. China prepared for it by regulating algorithms very early on, that is to say by imposing rights for users and duties for algorithm designers, as curious as that may seem. Which throws a mountain into the pond of Western “liberals” who scream as soon as we talk about regulation because they only mean regulation.

We already tell you this in an article dated March 31, 2022.

Extract.

China has adopted a triple regulatory approach (governance means nothing in French) of artificial intelligence.

1. A set of 30 rules which will apply to all algorithms used on the internet. An example rule is the ability of the algorithm to provide an explanation and correct any infringement of the rights and interests of users. This rule is particularly interesting because if the platforms – YouTube, Facebook, Twitter etc. – do not give any explanation for, for example, a decision to suspend an account, it is often more because they do not know what motivated the action than because they refuse to explain. Simply put, no one has a clear vision of what the algorithm does.

2. Of the tools and systems for testing and certifying trusted algorithms on criteria such as robustness, bias and their ability to explain

3. A set of ethical rules applying to the development of artificial intelligence accompanied by the obligatory existence of ethics committees within any organization working there, responsible for implementing these rules and monitoring their application.

Yes. You read that right. China, this totalitarian country, this communist dictatorship wants any decision taken by an algorithm or artificial intelligence to be able to be explained and corrected each time the rights and interests of a user are infringed.