
The gatekeeping of knowledge is officially over. DeepSeek-R1 proving that you don't need a $20/month subscription to get PhD-level math help is a massive win for students everywhere. For years, tools like Chegg and OpenAI locked the 'smart' answers behind paywalls, widening the gap between rich and poor students. DeepSeek is open-source and free. If schools try to ban this, they are fighting the wrong war. We should be celebrating that a kid in a village can now learn advanced calculus with an AI tutor that rivals a professor.