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Thomas Edison, the self-taught telegraph operator turned entrepreneur, is often considered the greatest inventor of all time, whereas Nikola Tesla, who worked for an Edison company in Paris before emigrating to the United States, is barely known, except through Elon Musk's electric vehicle company. Yet it was Tesla's breakthrough in alternating current, not Edison's direct current technology, that made mass electrification affordable. The prohibitive costs of direct current would have made Edison's urban electrification a toy for the rich, like many of his other inventions.Could Chinese investor Liang Wenfeng's DeepSeek AI models represent a similar breakthrough in this field, or are they scams like cold fusion and room-temperature superconductivity? And if confirmed, should the United States regard them as a mortal...
Thomas Edison, the self-taught telegraph operator turned entrepreneur, is often considered the greatest inventor of all time, whereas Nikola Tesla, who worked for an Edison company in Paris before emigrating to the United States, is barely known, except through Elon Musk's electric vehicle company. Yet it was Tesla's breakthrough in alternating current, not Edison's direct current technology, that made mass electrification affordable. The prohibitive costs of direct current would have made Edison's urban electrification a toy for the rich, like many of his other inventions.Could Chinese investor Liang Wenfeng's DeepSeek AI models represent a similar breakthrough in this field, or are they scams like cold fusion and room-temperature superconductivity? And if confirmed, should the United States regard them as a mortal...
