The growing popularity of the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) application DeepSeek has caught Donald Trump’s attention, who recently urged American tech companies to focus on AI competition.
Donald Trump: DeepSeek’s Rise – a Wake-up Call for US Tech Firms
President Trump says China’s DeepSeek AI model is a “wake-up call” for American companies but it is a good thing for faster and cheaper methods of AI to be developed pic.twitter.com/eV6roHqrWU
— Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) January 27, 2025
US President Trump said on Monday that the sudden rise of China’s artificial intelligence application DeepSeek “should sound the alarm for American technology companies” and said it is a good thing that Chinese companies have developed cheaper and more efficient artificial intelligence models. Trump believes that the low-cost model is a “very positive development” for the artificial intelligence industry as a whole.
Trump said he still expects U.S. tech companies to dominate the field of artificial intelligence, but he acknowledged the challenge posed by DeepSeek, a low-cost AI assistant that surged to No. 1 on the Apple App Store over the weekend.
“The release of DeepSeek artificial intelligence by a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industry and we need to focus on competition,” Trump said.
DeepSeek has become the talk of Silicon Valley, especially after the release of two advanced models, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, offering performance comparable to OpenAI at a fraction of the cost.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also applauded DeepSeek R1, saying, “DeepSeek’s R1 is an impressive model, especially since they are able to provide excellent performance at such a price. We will obviously launch better models, and at the same time, it is really exciting to have a new competitor join! We will release some new content.”
deepseek’s r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they’re able to deliver for the price.
we will obviously deliver much better models and also it’s legit invigorating to have a new competitor! we will pull up some releases.
— Sam Altman (@sama) January 28, 2025
Emphasizing on his research roadmap, Altman also added that the world is going to need a lot of AI and will be amazed by the next generation of models.
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