Chinese AI lab DeepSeek provoked the first Silicon Valley freak-out of 2025. Here's what it could mean for American AI policy.

Silicon Valley is coming to grips this week with the realization that creating an advanced artificial intelligence model may no longer be as specialized a task as was once believed.

DeepSeek claimed to have achieved this by using innovative engineering to replace raw computing power, accomplishing it in China—a country many experts believed was far behind in the global AI race. Initially,

DeepSeek just shook up the artificial intelligence (AI) world in the biggest way since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022. The Chinese company's new R1 large language model (LLM) reportedly matches or beats OpenAI's o1 model on some benchmarks.

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said the spending was needed to overcome the capacity constraints that hampered the tech giant's ability to capitalize on AI.

Meta has defended its $65bn (£52bn) investment in artificial intelligence (AI) days after US tech stocks wobbled in the wake of Chinese AI app DeepSeek's sudden rise. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said to investors on Wednesday there was a lot to learn from DeepSeek,

However, the consensus is that DeepSeek is superior to ChatGPT for more technical tasks. If you use AI chatbots for logical reasoning, coding, or mathematical equations, you might want to try DeepSeek because you might find its outputs better.

OpenAI says it is reviewing evidence that Chinese startup DeepSeek broke its terms of service by harvesting large amounts of data from its artificial intelligence technologies. The San Francisco-based startup,