The stunning rise of
DeepSeek is sending s
hockwaves through the artificial intelligence world, threatening America’s dominance that seemed set in stone just a week ago. The fact that a little-known Chinese startup has built a model that can compete with leading US AI systems is challenging the conventional wisdom that it takes gobs of money and unlimited access to cutting-edge computer chips to train AI technology. It shouldn’t really be possible for a Chinese AI startup to go toe-to-toe with OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini.
Now, President Donald Trump has to decide how to respond.
The United States has imposed tough restrictions that are designed to prevent Chinese firms from buying or building their own cutting-edge computer chips required to train AI models. These chips are at the heart of the AI arms race and the goal of the export curbs is to prevent China from keeping up.
