  The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently uncovered a new
record-breaking quasar, UHZ1, at a redshift of $z\sim10$. This discovery
continues JWST's trend of confronting the expectations from the standard
$\Lambda$CDM model of cosmology with challenges. Namely, too many very massive
galaxies and quasars have been observed at very high redshifts, when the
universe was only a few hundred million years old. We have previously shown
that Supermassive Dark Stars (SMDSs) may offer a solution to this puzzle. These
fascinating objects would be the first stars in the universe, growing to be
$\sim 10^5-10^7 M_{\odot}$ and shining as bright as $10^9$ suns. Unlike
Population III stars (the major alternative proposed model for the first stars
in the universe, which would also have zero metallicity and would be powered by
nuclear fusion), SMDSs would be powered by dark matter heating (e.g. dark
matter annihilation) and would be comparatively cooler. At the ends of their
lives (when they run out of dark matter fuel), SMDSs would directly collapse
into black holes, thus providing possible seeds for the first quasars. Previous
papers have shown that to form at $z\sim10$, UHZ1 would require an incredibly
massive seed ($\sim 10^4 -10^5 M_{\odot}$), which was assumed to be a Direct
Collapse Black Hole (DCBH). In this paper, we demonstrate that Supermassive
Dark Stars (SMDSs) offer an equally valid solution to the mystery of the first
quasars, by examining the four most distant known quasars: UHZ1, J0313-1806,
J1342+0928, and J1007+2115, with particular emphasis on UHZ1.
