Start with China spending ~$2 billion to start DeepSeek by training in on OpenAIs outputs, and more to falsely claim it was an independent operation on only a $5million [0] . It did initially create a problem in the markets, and put out a bunch of bad assumptions. But the mere effort put in to undermine it shows it is in the front — OpenAI is the one out front with the target on it's back.

Will OpenAI be brought down? Maybe. But they do have the lead, and are running like they mean to keep it. The future is not yet written.

[0] https://wccftech.com/ai-markets-were-deceived-to-believe-in-...