Not so fast.
How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
"The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model.
The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup #DeepSeek which claims that R1 matches or even surpasses OpenAI’s ChatGPT o1 on multiple key benchmarks but operates at a fraction of the cost."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/24/1110526/china-deepseek-top-ai-despite-sanctions/
"Fraction of the cost" = fraction of the energy use.