A frenzy over an artificial intelligence chatbot made by Chinese tech startup DeepSeek was upending stock markets Monday and fueling debates over the economic and geopolitical competition between the U.

Some AI researchers hailed DeepSeek’s R1 as a breakthrough on the same level as DeepMind’s AlphaZero, a 2017 model that became superhuman at the board games Chess and Go by purely playing against itself and improving, rather than observing any human games.

A Chinese company’s cut-rate computing solution has upended the tech world, with companies, investors and even the U.S. government trying to understand what it means for the future.

DeepSeek has unveiled an open-source large language model (LLM) that can reportedly compete with industry leaders such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Despite th

By Hera Rizwan Michael J. Davern, The University of Melbourne and Matt Pinnuck, The University of Melbourne Almost A$1 trillion (US$600 billion) was wiped off the value of artificial intelligence microchip maker Nvidia overnight on Monday,

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is making waves, with its AI assistant surpassing OpenAIs ChatGPT on Apples U.S. App Store. Using Nvidias lower-capability H800 chips, DeepSeek claims to have trained its model for under