Deep Seek And Destroy - Part Nine - How To Stop Wildfire Warfare - AI Summit With Musk Leading The Charge

Race To The Top With California AI Firms, Not A Race To Exfiltrate AI Data To China And Deep Seek

Currently, the California Fire ALERT system uses 1800 cameras pre-positioned around high fire areas and uses AI for image analysis to detect fire.

Article synopsis
California’s existing Fire ALERT grid relies on 1 800 ground cameras and AI image analysis, but the author argues that true early detection demands top-down satellite views. Google is already piloting an AI-driven “FIRESAT” constellation, while Chinese start-up Deep Seek Labs has slipped into Southern California to run its own wildfire simulation—backed by hedge-fund High Flyer. Governor Gavin Newsom’s choice to invite the opaque Chinese venture, rather than home-grown players like Grok/SpaceX, Google, Meta, OpenAI, or Anthropic, sets the stage for political backlash.

The pivotal date is 6 January 2025, when Deep Seek’s exercise appears to have kicked off just as Elon Musk floated using Grok’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) plan to tackle state wildfires. Fortune Magazine deflected blame onto California AI firms for the blazes, but Webb sees a coordinated effort to sideline Musk and funnel contract spoils eastward. He calls the arrangement a “Live Exercise” eerily reminiscent of pandemic-era drills that routed sensitive data overseas.

At the center is High Flyer’s playbook—modeled, the author claims, on Renaissance Capital’s 1990s strategy of exfiltrating U.S. tech, burning down assets (figuratively or literally), and scooping up distressed properties on the cheap. By partnering with Chinese traders, California insiders could profit from scorched-earth real-estate flips in places like Pacific Palisades. The moral hazard, Webb warns, is obvious: hedge-fund day traders have no stake in local safety, only asset arbitrage.

Webb therefore demands a “Race to the Top” in which satellite fire data are shared with every major U.S. AI lab, not siphoned to a single foreign outfit. He links Deep Seek’s IP addresses to Atlantic-Council operative Alan Apter—the same network that profited from COVID-era biotech deals such as ImmunityBio with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. If politicians persist in privateering with Beijing-linked financiers, Californians may watch their homes burn while outsiders reap the windfall.

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Deep Seek Labs and its parent hedge fund High Flyer act as the article’s antagonists, importing a Renaissance-style “burn and buy” arbitrage model to Los Angeles. Liang Wenfeng leads Deep Seek, now favored by Chinese officials, while Alan Apter of the Atlantic Council provides the connective tissue to previous covert “Live Exercises.” Legacy U.S. counterpart Renaissance Capital supplies the template: exploit government contacts, exfiltrate technology, and flip distressed assets for windfall profits.

On the California side, Gavin Newsom green-lights the partnership even as local tech titans—Elon Musk (Grok/SpaceX), Larry Page & Sergey Brin (Google), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Sam Altman (OpenAI), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic)—are left watching from the sidelines. National-security veterans John Brennan and Nancy Pelosi, plus biotech mogul Patrick Soon-Shiong, illustrate how political families and CIA alumni often orbit such ventures. Collectively these individuals and firms form two camps: U.S. AI giants advocating shared FIRESAT data versus a China-linked hedge-fund alliance betting on controlled burns and privatized profit.

These horizontally positioned cameras are not top-down; aerial viewpoints are best for fire detection. Satellite surveillance is by far the most efficient method if the fire satellites have adequate resolution. Google is currently working on a FIRESAT program using AI in California and China’s Deep Seek Labs, as I outlined in my Substack yesterday.

https://time.com/6999323/elon-musk-move-x-spacex-headquarters-texas-california/

Elon Musk, once a long-time resident of the Los Angeles area with his SpaceX satellite company in Hawthorne, California, near LAX, has long been a proponent of using specialized “fire satellites” to get a jump on California wildfires.

But instead of Governor Gavin Newsom engaging two California-expert AI companies, Google or Grok, a group of California insider investors chose to work with a Chinese hedge fund named High Flyer and its AI arm, Deep Seek, to conduct a fire simulation in Southern California.

The AI Fire Race seems to have begun on January 6th, 2025, specifically to prevent Musk and Grok from working with his DOGE—Department of Government Efficiency—to tackle the California Wildfire problem. Fortune Magazine actually tried to blame the California wildfires on the California AI companies.

https://fortune.com/article/how-much-water-does-ai-use/

The question now is whether privateering by California politicians with Chinese hedge fund cronies will supersede California residents' needs.

I am calling for a “Race To The Top” to share California wildfire FIRESAT data with California’s top AI giants (Grok, Open AI, Meta, and Washington’s Anthropic as well as everyone else), rather than a race to steal and exfiltrate everything out of Califonia to Chinese business partners at Deep Seek.

We know nothing of Deep Seek and Deep Seek Labs currently doing the AI Wildfire Exercise in Southern California other than they are hedge fund technical market traders with identical exfiltration signatures at Renaissance Capital, which made billions of exfiltrating US DoD technology.

We have shown how the CIA insiders at Renaissance Capital share IP addresses with the key bagmen of the CoronaVirus Live Exercise like Alan Apter of the Atlantic Council.

The current snuggly relationship with Deep Seek from China seems like yet another Live Exercise, this time a Fire Exercise in Southern California.

We literally have a junk bond and day trader hedge firm, Deep Seek and High Flyer, running the most extensive AI firm simulation and now live exercise in the world in Los Angeles right now.

Deep Seek’s roots are with High Flyer, a Chinese hedge fund trading on distressed asset arbitrage and exfiltration based on the same business model as Renaissance Capital. High Flyer’s model is not too different from the Al Capone Chicago Mob business model - burn down the competitors, then buy the ruins for pennies on the dollar, then put a new Capone saloon there,

The only apparent change here is that Renaissance Capital has changed its business partners from Russians to Chinese business partners. Having a Chinese hedge fund running a fire simulation and now live exercise in Southern California is an obvious moral hazard.

What do Chinese day traders care if Pacific Palisades burns? High Flyer will buy the real estate companies that Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, and John Brennan tell them to buy, and everyone will make a rapacious profit.

We have highlighted how this same Atlantic Council joint venture worked with John Brennan and Dr. Son Shiong of the LA Times and Los Angeles Lakers for the CoronaVirus Live Exercise and a company called ImmunityBio.