Chinese AI lab DeepSeek provoked the first Silicon Valley freak-out of 2025 after releasing open versions of AI models that compete with the best technology OpenAI, Meta, and Google have to offer.

For investors, DeepSeek's emergence is causing a serious rethink regarding sky-high valuations of U.S. tech firms, especially those invested in AI.

I’m skeptical of the most dramatic takes I’ve seen over the past few days — such as the claim, made by one Silicon Valley investor, that DeepSeek is an elaborate plot by the Chinese ...

Even if the company achieved its efficiency revolution with some malfeasance, DeepSeek’s achievements have lit a fire under Silicon Valley’s AI industry. “All those other frontier model labs ...

The debut of R1 turned DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng into a tech celebrity and a symbol of China’s ability to compete with the best of Silicon Valley. In February, President Xi Jinping invited Liang ...

But this January, a Chinese startup undercut that narrative. Hangzhou-based DeepSeek—not even a tech company, strictly speaking, but an offshoot of a hedge fund called High-Flyer—released R1 ...

US groups such as OpenAI that are racing to develop artificial intelligence are at risk of being undercut by cheaper rivals ...

The new version of DeepSeek R1 was released under the MIT open source license, so it can be used even in commercial projects ...

Claims that US export controls have failed, that model export restrictions can curb China’s AI ascent and that Silicon Valley has lost its edge overlook the reality that DeepSeek’s rise was an ...

DeepSeek said it has upgraded the R1 artificial intelligence model that helped propel the Chinese startup to global ...

AgiBot, a Chinese robotics firm, is beginning to embed homegrown AI systems like DeepSeek into humanoid robots at scale — ...

March 13 (Reuters) - Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek is choosing to focus on research over revenue, as its billionaire founder has decided not to follow Silicon Valley rivals by taking advantage of a ...