A small lab in China has shaken Silicon Valley. The sudden appearance of an advanced AI assistant from DeepSeek, a previously little-known company in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, has sparked discussion and debate within the U.

SINGAPORE—A Chinese artificial-intelligence company has Silicon Valley marveling at how its programmers nearly matched American rivals despite using inferior chips. AI models from DeepSeek, the Chinese company,

The models were actually released a few weeks ago, but Deepseek has suddenly become the most downloaded app in the app store and is attracting a lot of attention. This could be pa

Since Chinese AI company DeepSeek released an open version of its reasoning model R1 at the beginning of this week, many in the tech industry have been

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial-intelligence company, has Silicon Valley marveling over how its programmers nearly matched American rivals despite using inferior chips.