When China rolled out DeepSeek-R1 back in January, it sent shock waves through global markets and triggered a significant sell-off in American stocks, as it performed just as well, if not better, than U.S. models but could be produced at a fraction of the cost.

Now there are rumors of an R2 model that isn’t just smarter than anything we’ve ever seen before; it’s an entirely different kind of artificial intelligence that other leaders in AI development haven’t even fathomed.

“It is a completely different species of intelligence operating on principles nobody in the West has even theorized yet,” says Glenn Beck, reading from a social media post by an anonymous account that goes by the name @iruletheworldmo, who is speculated to be either “an insider in one of the big AI research firms” or “a bot” created to mislead other researchers.