Is it possible that the key here is all about where top talent goes? America's best minds from Math and Informatics Olympiads gravitate to Wall Street for financial gains. Similarly, DeepSeek's top talent are mostly IMO and IOI medalists and they originally aimed for finance too (The parent company of DeepSeek is a successful quant trader), but strict government regulations pushed them towards AI instead. Ironically, this unintended pivot turned out to be quite significant