To The Moon

The so-called Magnificent Seven group of tech stocks have spent the past two years looking invincible, so it's ironic that the companies worth $18 trillion in total market value were undercut this past week by a Chinese start-up no one on Wall Street had heard of just days earlier.Such is the power -- and vulnerability -- of being on the cutting edge.The new R1 artificial-intelligence model from China's DeepSeek has comparable performance to some of the world's best models, and seemingly comes at a lower price to train and run in the cloud.There are many reasons to be skeptical of R1, beginning with the fact that the Chinese government may be subsidizing R1's creation and deployment. But DeepSeek has made the model open source and produced two white papers detailing its methods, and AI labs in the U.S. and allied countries are busy trying to replicate what DeepSeek did.It's the cloud, in fact, that looks most vulnerable from the DeepSeek development. The ability to run models on local