Trump says China's DeepSeek AI ‘should be a wake-up call’

President Donald Trump said Monday that the sudden rise of Chinese AI app DeepSeek “should be a wake-up call” for America’s tech companies.

President Donald Trump said Monday that the sudden rise of the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek “should be a wake-up call” for America’s tech companies as the runaway popularity of yet another Chinese app presented new questions for the administration and congressional leaders. 

Trump said he still expected U.S. tech companies to dominate artificial intelligence, but he acknowledged the challenge posed by DeepSeek, a low-cost AI assistant that rose to No. 1 on the Apple app store over the weekend. 

“The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser focused on competing,” he said as he traveled in Florida. 

DeepSeek is causing a panic within U.S. tech companies and in the stock market because it has performed well in tests compared with competing AI models from Meta and OpenAI, while it was developed at a much lower cost, according to the little-known Chinese startup behind it. 

Trump said he considered the low-cost model to be “very much a positive development” for AI overall, because “instead of spending billions and billions, you’ll spend less, and you’ll come up with, hopefully, the same solution.” 

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/trump-china-deepseek-ai-wake-call-rcna189526

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