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1. Will rise of Chinese AI firm DeepSeek tilt the balance in US-China tech war?
The rise of little-known Chinese tech start-up DeepSeek has exposed weaknesses in America’s “small yard, high fence” strategy to contain China’s technological progress, according to experts.
2. Trump calls China’s DeepSeek AI leap a ‘wake-up call’ for US tech
US President Donald Trump has called Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek’s strong showing a “wake-up call” and “positive” for America’s tech sector, and also warned that he would slap tariffs on foreign-made semiconductor chips, including those made by Taiwan’s TSMC, if they do not start producing them stateside.
3. DeepSeek breakthrough, Nvidia rout raise concerns over massive AI spending
The model’s capabilities roughly match those of advanced models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google while having significantly lower training costs. Large US tech companies may follow suit and replicate some of the training techniques that DeepSeek leveraged to drive the cost of R1 down.