For those few readers who may be unaware, DeepSeek is an advanced open-source artificial intelligence platform developed in China. Released in late 2024, it has set a new standard in AI, outperforming American counterparts in adaptability and capability. It excels in natural language processing, machine learning, and data analysis, and—critically—it is open source. Unlike the proprietary models that dominate the American tech landscape, DeepSeek allows anyone to adapt, improve, and use it as he sees fit. It’s not just a technological triumph for China; it’s a serious challenge to American domination of information technology and an opportunity for those who want to break free from the stranglehold of Silicon Valley.
As a Chinese person, I take pride in this achievement. It’s a testament to what my people can achieve with focus and ambition. But my concern is less about taking pride in what China has done and more about lamenting how little Britain has contributed to this revolution. Britain, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, seems to have no place in this new world of AI-driven progress. The question is why?
The answer is simple: The people who rule Britain have chosen decline. Crushing taxes on income and capital gains, and inheritance taxes, punish those who want to create wealth. Endless regulations stifle ambition, making it easier to conform than to innovate. Worst of all, there are the net zero policies, which have made energy costs the highest in the world, making electricity unaffordable and unreliable. Industries that depend on energy have been priced out of existence, and the dreamers and doers who might have built the next DeepSeek are being ground down by a system designed to reward mediocrity.
Net zero is not a noble goal born of misconception; it’s a disaster by design. It’s a wealth transfer scheme that takes from ordinary working people and hands billions to a small clique of green profiteers. The winners are the wind farm builders, the financiers running opaque carbon trading schemes, and the activists cashing in on government handouts. The losers are everyone else—families struggling to pay energy bills, businesses forced to close, and an entire country left unable to compete.
Compare this to China. DeepSeek wasn’t luck—it was the product of a system that rewards innovation. Electricity in China is cheap and reliable. Regulations focus on enabling progress, not blocking it. Ambition is celebrated, not treated as a threat. The ruling class there, for all its many and terrible faults, understands the value of creating wealth and technological self-reliance. Britain’s ruling class, by contrast, has abandoned the idea of building anything. They’d rather sit in the City of London, counting money made elsewhere, than see industry and innovation flourish in the country at large. They have chosen decline—not for them, but for us.
What makes this worse is the transformative potential of artificial intelligence. AI has the power to revolutionise every aspect of life, from healthcare to education, from transportation to manufacturing. It can automate the drudgery of work, freeing people to focus on what truly matters. It can solve problems we once thought intractable, creating a world of abundance and opportunity. The wealth and progress that AI promises are staggering—but only for those who use it, and most of all for those who contribute to its further development.
DeepSeek should be a call to action for all ordinary working people. This is a chance to break free from decline and reclaim a place at the forefront of human progress. The open-source nature of DeepSeek means the tools for success are there for the taking. But Britain as a whole can’t take them unless it changes course. That means cutting taxes, abolishing regulations, sacking dead-weight bureaucrats, and abandoning the green fantasies that are driving the country into the ground. It means fostering a culture that rewards excellence and celebrates ambition.
Britain doesn’t have to be left behind. The talent and potential are still here. But time is passing. DeepSeek is proof that the future belongs to those who work for it—and only to those who work for it.
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Yes. Net zero is part of it – AI requires cheap energy, as some of it is based on Big Data and the processing of vast amounts of information. At a time when companies are investing in data centres, Britain has decided it wants the world’s most expensive energy. In addition: Rishi Sunak stated that Britain would have the toughest AI regulations in the world, supposedly to prevent computers from taking over the world in a Skynet/Terminator scenario. This is just laughable. We don’t know if computers will ever become self-aware, and we are not close to that scenario. Japan stated it would have the lightest-touch regulation of AI – but Britain then chimes in that we will do that opposite. So AI will be centred on China and Japan, and not Britain. Curiously, Brexit allows Britain to adopt light-touch regulation, but our rulers decide to the opposite…
that opposite>the opposite
to the opposite>to do the opposite
I tried DeepSeek on racial differences in intelligence, only to find DeepSeek regurgitates the same Far Left propaganda as ChatGPT.
As this is open source, I see this as a great opportunity for AI in t he UK I concur with your observations on the genesis of this, but also to add that necessity being the mother of invention, I feel the lack of access to high end GPUs caused China startups to get smart. In the Taoist sense, water will always find a way. No rock will stop it. And so we now see this.
Anyone can benefit from this innovation, just as all could benefit when Turbinia dramatically arrived on the scene in 1894, showing the greatest naval power in the world all its piston-powered Battleship leviathans were redundant at that instant. The meta-innovation is the key, not any specifics. The seal has been broken. Brute force is no longer necessary in all cases.
The thing we need to be wary of is the same with all technology – will it be used for good or ill?
The defeatist, self-loathing, anti-human mindset has to be expunged in Govt and institution and I think the cat is now out the bag. They will not be able to control it, again, for this is unstoppable.
Productivity is the key to broad-based wealth creation, and such is the foundation of a free and prosperous society. Net Zero is one major hindrance to that for sure. High cost in energy, state interference in human behaviour and choice, subsidy and picking losers as winners.
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