This is CBSI on the world, the Scholar Report with CEO Chris Wrigal of Scala.com,

transforming the retail space with digital signage with business on all the major continents,

especially Asia. We address Asia immediately because of the excitement over a lab in China called Deepseek that proposes to do

the same work of the best AI companies at a much lower cost even faster.

However, Chris, a very good day to you.

I remember vividly an anecdote you told me some years ago,

about an underground wholesale market in Shanghai,

or at the edge of Shanghai,

or somewhere integrated into the city.

I've never been there.

And everything in the market, a wide open space is what I picture,

sort of a Costco or a Walmarts.

Everything in the market reflects luxury goods, the sort of thing that you buy from Europe routinely, or America. But it's all

understood to be knockoffs. Everything is intellectual property ripped off, an imitation. And the

shopping there is ferocious.

I remember that every time we come up with something that asserts that it's China being,

breaking through to the next level because of their hard work and their diligence,

they are the future.

And Deep Seek now has mitigation in the news that the preparation for the claim of a much lower cost and faster AI skipped out a couple of details such as using OpenJet that's available

for training somewhere in the steps that they prepare

their final run through that they say cost little more than $5 million.

Now that's all a complicated way of saying.

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