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The bull market that has been charging for the past year has seen a surge in volatility recently. The Chinese startup DeepSeek released its latest AI model, R1, and shook up the tech world with claims that the new AI consumes just a fraction of the computing power as existing big-name AIs and has been much cheaper to develop – but gives comparable results.