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The wind of “how to use AI to make tens of thousands of yuan a month” has spread to the other side of the ocean.
Two years ago, ChatGPT was born, causing AI panic to sweep across the country. Angry people crowded into various AI courses, from Li Yizhou to prompt engineers, from basic introduction to advanced practical combat, courses large and small emerged like bamboo shoots. Before AI had time to change the world, these “shovel sellers” got rich first.
Nowadays, the tide is turning, and the popularity of DeepSeek R1 has given this drama a new plot. This model from the East has set off a new wave of enthusiasm around the world with its three axes of thought chain, pure open source, and low cost. Foreigners quickly started studying DeepSeek, and X and Youtube are full of DeepSeek usage tutorials and monetization solutions.
Really researching, selling anxiety, playing with emotions… These old routines that have resurfaced have become DeepSeek’s best “tap water”.
Even foreigners sell classes? Deepseek tutorials are all over X and Youtube
It’s hard to imagine opening X to search for “DeepSeek”. The top priority item is not technical analysis, but the “Prompt Words Guide”.
On the X platform, a large number of overseas bloggers began to share DeepSeek’s usage skills. Some bloggers focus on optimizing prompt words and claim to have mastered the “secret” that allows models to produce better results.
However, this operation is a bit confusing. After all, DeepSeek’s core interactive logic is “real scene + specific requirements” rather than a prompt word framework. The straightforward expression of “I want to make XX, use it for XX scenes, and hope to achieve XX effect” The effect is the best, rather than the structured traditional Prompt method of using other AI.
Similar to the early ChatGPT training in China, these bloggers often publish free introductory tutorials on social media to attract attention, and then guide fans to private communities to further promote expensive advanced courses, or peddle the so-called “DeepSeek exclusive tips thesaurus”, or create a paid community, cooperate with one-on-one guidance services, or even launch customized DeepSeek application training solutions for the corporate market.
“AI replaces humans”,”Cases of counterattacks by ordinary people”,”If you don’t learn DeepSeek, you will be eliminated”… These words that accurately hit survival anxiety can be said to be a familiar smell.
Some courses even cost as much as $99. The free DeepSeek may not have thought it would be so valuable.
Some people pay for knowledge, while others earn traffic and subscriptions.
The DeepSeek tutorials on Youtube are even more diverse. Some creators focus on technical explanations; others carry and organize various application scenarios to demonstrate DeepSeek’s practice in different industries. There are many large numbers, such as freeCodeCamp, the well-known programming teaching account, released related quick teaching videos on January 30, showing off their professional level and technical vision.
Bloggers with a more pragmatic spirit recorded DeepSeek local deployment tutorials to teach people how to run models on personal computers. After all, different from previous large models, the DeepSeek model has been compressed to the level that can be deployed on the computer side. The nature of open source also makes it possible for users to deploy locally and develop secondary. In addition, coupled with the fact that the official website has been crowded and it has been delayed for dialogue, and concerns about information security, end-side deployment has naturally become one of the focuses.
Of course, like in China, what people like most is to talk directly about how to make money with DeepSeek. From taking orders to starting a business, various business solutions emerge one after another.
For example, there is how Bo Bishop users use DeepSeek to imitate horror story video accounts to create new content.
First copy all the content on the homepage of popular accounts and ask DeepSeek to analyze it, and then imitate the creative title and story text outline.
Blogger pointed out that DeepSeek gave a very detailed and accurate breakdown of the title style, video duration, SEO keywords, etc., and wrote a very smooth story.
Although to a certain extent, this massive overseas DeepSeek training craze is full of anxiety trafficking, it also shows that DeepSeek is truly widely recognized and has become a global traffic code.
“0 launch”, another way to open technology to sea
When a technology product can form a knowledge-based payment ecosystem on a global scale, it means that it has indeed solved certain pain points.
Usually, companies need to invest a lot of capital to acquire users when going abroad and expanding, but DeepSeek has taken a different path: it has not invested huge marketing expenses, but has gained spontaneous communication from global developers with its pure technical strength.
Behind this “0 release” model, there are two key factors supporting it: on the one hand, DeepSeek has achieved breakthroughs in core indicators such as computing power efficiency and reasoning performance, which allows its performance in some scenarios to even exceed existing benchmarks; On the other hand, the open source strategy is hard-core. By opening source code and technical documentation, DeepSeek provides developers around the world with a complete tool chain that can be researched and used in depth, allowing more people to participate, and this transparency naturally builds trust.
This also overturned the persistence of big model companies and applications on investment in the past year. At that time, giant companies benefited from their control of the Internet traffic pattern and gained a leading position in the AI product promotion competition. Among the startups, some suffered from financial pressure and took the initiative to avoid the range of giants early. Others Looking for funds, expand investment coverage, and compete with big manufacturers.
No matter how you choose, traffic is becoming a belief, but DeepSeek breaks this.
According to the AI product list, after the release of the DeepSeek R1 model on January 20 this year, DeepSeek users increased by 125 million in January (including websites (Web) and applications (Apps) without eliminating duplication). Among them, more than 80% of users came from the last week of January, that is, DeepSeek achieved a growth of 100 million users in 7 days without any advertising, far exceeding the level of ChatGPT for the same period. This just shows that there are still a large number of unmet needs in the AI field. Opportunities, iterative breakthroughs in the basic model may bring a new round of explosions at any time.
For more technology companies, DeepSeek brings the deep experience that in global competition, the real core competitiveness is not marketing investment, but solid technological innovation and the industry concept of open sharing.
As long as the technology is hard enough and gold diggers flock to it, the breaking spread of AI is almost a natural matter.
