DeepSeek's AI disruption arises from its structural shift: delivering state-of-the-art performance at drastically lower costs and breaking traditional infrastructure dependencies via exclusive partnerships with Chinese chipmakers. Its V3 model cost about $5.5 million versus GPT-4's higher cost.

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This shift has led to rapid adoption, with over 75 million downloads of DeepSeek's open-source models. DeepSeek-V3.2 outperforms GPT-5 High in the Codeforces Programming Competition and GPT-4.5 Turbo at 40% inference cost. Nvidia shares fell 17%, and the Nasdaq declined 3%.

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