The Free Chinese AI That Caught ChatGPT (DeepSeek V4)

You pay $20/month for ChatGPT. DeepSeek, a free Chinese AI, handles writing, coding, and everyday questions nearly as well — for nothing. It can't make images or video and has no voice mode, but for plain text it competes with models that cost real money. This is the full landscape of Chinese AI right now: DeepSeek, Qwen, and why the best AI is still American, but the cheapest and most open is now Chinese.

In this video:
- The Chinese AI labs you've never heard of (DeepSeek, Qwen, Doubao, GLM, ERNIE, Kimi, MiniMax)
- How a hedge fund manager built a GPT-4 rival for $5.6 million
- The free model that wiped $589 billion off Nvidia in a single day
- Why Chinese models are more open source than the company called "OpenAI"
- Who actually leads the benchmarks, and who's far cheaper
- The censorship trade-off, on both sides
- How the US chip ban backfired

This is video 1 of the AI Model Wars series.

TRY IT YOURSELF:
DeepSeek (free): https://chat.deepseek.com
Qwen (free): https://chat.qwen.ai
Ollama (run AI on your own computer): https://ollama.com
Chapters:
0:00 Free DeepSeek vs $20 ChatGPT
0:53 How China took over HuggingFace (and crashed Nvidia)
1:35 The $5.6M model: how DeepSeek began
2:38 The Chinese AI labs you've never heard of
3:55 Are the Chinese models actually any good?
4:22 The price gap: 87 cents vs 25 dollars
5:34 Why "OpenAI" is the least open
6:31 Censorship on both sides
7:30 The chip ban that backfired
9:11 The honest read

SOURCES:
HuggingFace — One Year Since the DeepSeek Moment: https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment
DeepSeek V3 Technical Report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19437
DeepSeek V4 model card: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro
SWE-bench Verified leaderboard: https://llm-stats.com/benchmarks/swe-bench-verified
DeepSeek API pricing: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
Qwen passes 700M downloads (Xinhua): https://english.news.cn/20260113/004b0522f987475cbf83ffc3a8d009aa/c.html
Epoch AI — US vs China capability gap: https://epoch.ai/data-insights/us-vs-china-eci/

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