DeepSeek Drops Nvidia as Open-Source Squeezes the AI Giants

Welcome to the massive open-weight squeeze. Today, DeepSeek shocked the industry by dropping its V4 model with a 1-million token context, bypassing Nvidia hardware entirely. As open-source models like Qwen 3.6 match frontier capabilities on local MacBooks, proprietary giants are feeling the pressure. OpenAI’s new GPT-5.5 brings double the price but marginal gains—leaving developers rolling their eyes at strict new safeguards—while Anthropic