On the morning of 24 April 2026, a Chinese laboratory most British boardrooms still cannot pronounce correctly released a 1.6-trillion-parameter language model under the MIT licence, posted the techn…
DeepSeek V4 and the death of two monopolies
Two monopolies died on 24 April: NVIDIA's grip on launch-day silicon, and the assumption that frontier-like performance was worth the closed-source premium.
