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DeepSeek; I've read that the code therein is all open source. Hence anyone could built their own

Deepseek, as long as they don't call it that and apparently it'll fit in say, a gaming computer rather than the multi million dollar rigs running the other AIs.

Deepseek is a bit weird I gave it a buoyancy problem and it told me it would not work, that I needed to use a lighter gas like helium, rather than the hydrogen I postulated. Helium is twice as heavy as hydrogen, BTW.

Foreign manufacturing; yep, some areas we lack necessary skill to build onshore. Simple answer, educate and train.

However there are many other enormous hurtles (Our government, for one.) blocking such.

For example I needed a spring operated electric timer, on/off switch to replace a motherboard, a couple of daughter boards and a few granddaughter boards (Those bells and whistles are all in the off the shelf unit, the one I was making for my own use works just as well with only the spring timer.) for a project.

I searched long and hard for American made timers with no luck and ended up buying a three dollar one from China. Six years later, used daily, still working fine.

Why yes we have the skills necessary to build spring operated timers. We also have the materials and tools need to do so. I believe we could build such competitively if rules, regulations, approvals, etc. that I am beginning to strongly suspect are designed to specifically stop us from doing so.

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