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

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

It’s impossible to look at the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek’s new AI model without comparing it against OpenAI, the dominant American rival.DeepSeek has touted its latest AI model,

NVIDIA, the world's most valuable company until Monday, lost $600 billion of market value in a single day, the biggest in US stock history.

President Donald Trump said DeepSeek’s AI advances should be a “wake-up call” for the U.S.

Chinese startup DeepSeek has achieved what many (including experts) thought impossible: create a foundational, competitive AI model for just $5.6 million. By comparison, OpenAI’s unreleased GPT-5 (codenamed “Orion”) reportedly requires $500 million for six months of training.