Silicon Valley is coming to grips this week with the realization that creating an advanced artificial intelligence model may no longer be as specialized a task as was once believed.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then the United States' biggest artificial intelligence investors are rethinking where they put a bulk of their combined $131.5 billion last year in the wake of the debut of China's open-source AI model, DeepSeek.

DeepSeek, with its highly innovative open source model that claims to cut AI training cost to a fraction of what is incurred by US companies, challenges the American dominance in AI