President Donald Trump warned a crowd at the Republican lawmakers’ gathering of the Congressional Institute at the Trump Doral National resort in Miami on Jan. 27 that the Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek’s actions could prove disruptive to the industry.
“Hopefully, the release of [DeepSeek] AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries. They need to be laser-focused on competing,” Trump said. “Because we have the greatest scientists in the world, even Chinese leadership told me that.”
He suggested the news that an AI company outside the United States had managed to create a breakthrough that allowed for faster and cheaper training and processing was not expected.
“This is very unusual when you hear a DeepSeek, when you hear somebody come up with something,” Trump said. “We always have the ideas, we’re always first.”
Founded in 2023 by Liang Wengfeng—co-founder of the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer—DeepSeek is a free, open-source language learning model that is comparable to some of the best-known closed-source models on the market. […]
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