What’s making many people resent generative AI, and what impact does that have on the companies responsible? The recent reveal of DeepSeek-R1, the large scale LLM developed by a Chinese company (also named DeepSeek), has been a very interesting event for those of us who spend time observing and analyzing the cultural and social phenomena around AI. Evidence suggests that R1 was trained for a fraction of the price that it cost to train ChatGPT (any of their recent models, really), and there are a few reasons that might be true.