The AI race was supposed to be decided by Nvidia’s chips. But DeepSeek’s latest V4 model suggests China may be pursuing a different strategy: building powerful AI that depends less on American hardware. If that approach succeeds, it could reshape the global AI race in ways few people expected.
This mini-documentary explores DeepSeek V4, Huawei AI chips, Nvidia, China’s AI strategy, AI efficiency, the U.S.–China chip war, export controls, and how a new generation of open, domestic AI models could create a parallel AI ecosystem beyond America’s technology stack.

