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

In some ways, DeepSeek was far less censored than most Chinese platforms, offering answers with keywords that would often be quickly scrubbed on domestic social media. Other times, the program eventually censored itself.

DeepSeek AI has hit the industry ​​segment with a bang, but its growing popularity is raising national security concerns among US officials.

The U.S. tried to slow China’s advances, but the startup showed how hard that is.

A cyber-threat report from Google is shedding light on how foreign actors are leveraging generative AI to boost their hacking prowess.

Asked about sensitive topics, the bot would begin to answer, then stop and delete its own work. It refused to answer questions like: “Who is Xi Jinping?”

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.

China's DeepSeek, a ChatGPT competitor reportedly built for just $6 million, has sent shockwaves and challenged assumptions about AI development costs.

DeepSeek’s launch raises questions over the effectiveness of US attempts to stifle Chinese advances in AI. Here’s what we can learn from its apparent success.

Eric Schmidt, former CEO and chairman of Google, is co-founder of Schmidt Sciences and chair of the nonpartisan think tank Special Competitive Studies Project. Dhaval Adjodah is co-founder and CEO of MakerMaker.AI.

Shares for leading US chip firm Nvidia dropped by almost 17% on Monday after the emergence of DeepSeek stunned Silicon Valley.

DeepSeek says that its v3 model, released on Boxing Day, cost less than $6m (£4.8m) to train, less than a 10th of what Meta spent on its most recent system, and used underpowered Nvidia chips designed for the Chinese market. Unlike companies such as OpenAI, its systems are “open source”, meaning they can be downloaded for free by anybody.