Frances Beinecke, former president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, once wrote about this possibility in the Huffington Post. Frances expanded on the arguments of free marketeer economist Adam Smith who’s widely respected by the successful tech community. AI entrepreneurs have secured front row seats in the business-friendly White House. President Obama was also an initial proponent of pushing for sustainability and profiteering in the clean tech industry.

Now, the Chinese startup company DeepSeek has thrown a curveball at the American AI industry showing how it might be possible to vastly expand AI capabilities with less energy usage. The most advanced (& expensive) chips and data centers could be scaled with less energy demands and environmental consequences. Nuclear power might not be needed after all.

The brilliance of the new open-sourced models from DeepSeek has economic, national security, and workforce ramifications. Proprietary AI has become ‘AI for All.’ The democratization of AI is happening much quicker than anyone thought. I’ll blog more about these trends next time.

For now, this is a game changer for the tech industry —- lowering lavish market expectations. It also gives consumers and buyers of AI technologies an eco-friendly option.

The invisible hand of AI has proven to have a green thumb: article

[Let the buyer be aware that these products have not been fully tested or secured]