DeepSeek’s 12-Hour Outage Just Proved the Real AI War Isn’t About Models
The AI industry’s obsession with model benchmarks is blinding us to the real crisis: infrastructure fragility. DeepSeek’s 12-hour outage, chip shortages, and grid instability prove that reliability—not intelligence—will determine the winners. This article argues that the next battleground is ecosystem trust, and companies that fail to prioritize resilience are building on sand.