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EPISODE · Apr 26, 2026 · 20 MIN

How Sanctions Became a Design Brief: The Innovation That Built China's Open AI Frontier

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DeepSeek V4 just changed everything. 1.6 trillion parameters on Chinese silicon, frontier performance at fraction of cost. This is how export sanctions backfired and created an AI innovation nobody predicted. Watch as we break down the trillion-parameter revolution, how scarcity became genius, and what it means when a nation decouples from Western AI dependence. From Huawei's Ascend 950 to open-weight models reshaping geopolitics - explore the engineering, the strategy, and the future of technological sovereignty. The constraint became generative. Here's why that matters for AI, semiconductors, and global tech competition. Subscribe for deep dives into the technologies reshaping our world. #DeepSeekV4 #ChinaAI #AISanctions #SemiconductorWars #TechGeopolitics Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNYoC5tcWcM

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