only if your r&d produces a high barrier to enter, otherwise the competitions, domestic or foreign, i.e. european, can and will catch up. and meager half million salary won’t go far.
NVDA is a manufacturer of products created by original innovation and not re-fabrication of products based on already invented concepts. DeepSeek is not original; it's based on the original concept used to create ChatGPT. So it's re-engineered.
a new competitor you don't like emerges, the market judges. idk, maybe they have dna sequencing cracked and will have a humandroid before anyone else.
A knock-off is not what I would call a competitor. A knock-off that can have potential negative impact on our humanity is what I would call a monster and would need to be destroyed.
knockoff is your accusation until proven otherwise, lot of smart guys are looking into their codes. nvda and msft are hosting its models already.