I guess central planning can be very effective when playing catch up on greenfield projects of massive scale
DeepSeek is a scrapy tech startup fully funded by a successful hedge fund owner without any cooperation with the government.
Meanwhile OpenAI's board includes the most recent head of the NSA and Altman just announced he'll be in DC pandering to Trump next week.
Well DeepSeek hasn't really caught the eye of the leadership before they released R1.