Government policies, generous funding and a pipeline of AI graduates have helped Chinese firms create advanced LLMs.

This week, some auto industry observers felt a creeping sense of déjà vu. Seemingly out of nowhere, a Chinese firm made international headlines by besting Western companies at the tech they supposedly invented.

Apple’s report Thursday afternoon is the latest in a busy week for earnings and will provide a test for the iPhone maker’s DeepSeek inspired rally this week.

As China’s DeepSeek grabs headlines around the world for its disruptively low-cost AI, it is only natural that its models are coming under intense scrutiny—and some researchers are not liking what they see.

Deepseek collects similar data to American-based AI models, but Chinese laws could make that data more accessible to the government.

People across China have taken to social media to hail the success of its homegrown tech startup DeepSeek and its founder, after the company unveiled its newest artificial intelligence model, sending shock waves through Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Amodei says the breakthrough actually cost billions, emphasizing that AI development remains resource-intensive despite engineering gains.

U.S. companies were spooked when the Chinese startup released models said to match or outperform leading American ones at a fraction of the cost.

DeepSeek has delighted the Chinese internet ahead of Lunar New Year, the country's biggest holiday. It's good news for a beleaguered economy and a tech industry that is bracing for further tariffs and the possible sale of TikTok's US business.

U.S. officials are looking at the national security implications of the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday, while President Donald Trump's crypto czar said it was possible that intellectual property theft could have been at play.

Global technology stocks tumbled in late January as hype around DeepSeek's innovation snowballed and investors began to digest the implications for its U.S.-based rivals and their hardware suppliers.

DeepSeek released an open-source artificial intelligence model in December, saying it took only two months and less than $6 million to create it.