Top White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China's DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of US rivals called "distillation."

The emergence of DeepSeek came shortly after President Trump unveiled his "Stargate" project to invest $500bn in advancing AI.

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After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people's work, OpenAI is trying to pin blame on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.

ChatGPT maker says it will need extra protection from US government, following emergence of Chinese rival, DeepSeek.

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in ChatGPT owner OpenAI, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the Japanese conglomerate continues to expand into the sector.

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.

Scrapping export restrictions on top-of-the-line GPU chips because of DeepSeek's s AI success would hand China a major win, says Toner.

After Chinese startup DeepSeek shook Silicon Valley and Wall Street, efforts have begun to reproduce its cost-efficient AI in the West.

DeepSeek: After US Navy, Congressional offices have been warned not to use DeepSeek, an upstart Chinese chatbot that is roiling the American AI market. Prior to this, the US Navy instructed its members to avoid using DeepSeek over national security concerns.

The benchmark scores come by way of an X post from David McAfee, AMD's vice president and general manager of Ryzen and Radeon. He put up a chart comparing both the GeForce RTX 4080 Super and the RTX 4090 against the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, along with the note: “DeepSeek performing very well on @AMDRadeon 7900 XTX.”