It appears that like Jim Simons from Renaissance Capital (whose fund beat the market for years) the founder of Deep Seek was a ‘quant,’ and his breakthrough in AI wasn’t even the primary purpose of his research. Amazing. If he’s to be believed, for less than $6 million, he’s aimed what could be a lethal shot across the bow of a brand new industry that, when the week started, thought it was on the verge of total global domination in the New American Century.