DeepSeek V4 Just Dropped. Google Bet $40B on the Opposite Approach. Here's What It Actually Means.

The news hit back-to-back within 48 hours. First: DeepSeek dropped V4 — 1.6 trillion parameters, open weights, frontier-level performance, running at a fraction of the cost of GPT-5.5 or Claude Opus 4.7. Then: Google announced a $40 billion investmen...