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PLUS: Inside OpenAI before its public upheavals, and Elon Musk sleeping at the DOGE offices in DC. View in browser   |   Your newsletter preferences 01.31.25 We hope you enjoy this free edition of Plaintext. For access to the full newsletter and all of WIRED's award-winning journalism, become a paying subscriber today . Hi everyone! I'm Zoë Schiffer , WIRED's (very new) director of business and industry—and also Steven Levy's editor—stepping in for him this week. It feels like January has lasted a year, hmm? Just last month we were ready to ban TikTok. Look at us now. It's been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world . The introduction of its open-weight model—apparently trained on a fraction of the specialized computing chips that power industry leaders—set off shock waves inside OpenAI. Not only did employees claim to see hints that DeepSeek had "inappropriately distilled" OpenAI's models to create its own, but the sta...