U.S. Export Controls Fuel DeepSeek’s AI Success: A Challenge to American Tech Dominance
U.S. export controls on advanced semiconductors, crafted to limit China’s technological growth, have unintentionally propelled DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, into the global spotlight. The Hangzhou-based firm’s R1 AI chatbot now rivals leading U.S. models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 at a fraction of the cost, raising alarms in Washington about policy efficacy and China’s accelerating AI ...
