As China’s DeepSeek grabs headlines around the world for its disruptively low-cost AI, it is only natural that its models are coming under intense scrutiny—and some researchers are not liking what they see.

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

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday (January 27) that Chinese startup DeepSeek's technology should act as spur for American companies and said it was good that companies in China have come up with a cheaper,

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 U.S. rivals called "distillation."

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