Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When Chinese AI company DeepSeek released its cheap and serviceable V3 model early last year, it sent shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley and beyond, roiling the stock market, shaking political confidence in American AI, and stoking new fears from the ever-churlish China hawks. A year later, DeepSeek is preparing to launch its new V4 model — a development which could have major implicati