What’s happening: A Chinese firm, DeepSeek, shocked the West this week by announcing it had created a new artificial intelligence (AI) model for only $6 million and without using the American company Nvidia’s computer chips. The news sent Nvidia’s stocks tumbling, losing $600 billion — the largest one-day drop in US history.

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Jorge Rios1 year ago

The U.S. should block and ban anything coming from the CCP. We have already seen what they are all about with tik tok. This cancer needs to be cut out before it takes hold, just look at how difficult it has been to even attempt to stop and remove tik tok.

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claude chase1 year ago

China strongly rejects the concept of property rights, and infringes -"Steels" everything it can from creators, and then makes outlandish claims of Chinese success in out pacing all competition!

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sharon smith1 year ago

Of course the Chinese pirated the technology, just as it has over decades of tech. development in the West. I would be suspicious that they would have added spy-ware to their design, so I wouldn't get too excited about the lower cost. BEWARE, AI app. buyers! The cost to you might be ultimately more than you bargained for!!

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