Entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, known for co-writing Mosaic, one of the world’s first web browsers, wrote Sunday on X that “DeepSeek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” likening it to the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and the event that forced the U.S. to realize that its technological abilities were not unassailable.

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, sent stocks plummeting on Monday after claiming it has created large language models that rival the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company’s iOS app has climbed to the top of Apple’s App Store ranking list,

Here's an overview of other leading AI models in China, from Alibaba Cloud's Qwen-2.5-1M to Moonshot AI's Kimi k1.5.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Chinese startup DeepSeek's technology should act as spur for American companies and said it was good that companies in China have come up with a cheaper,

President Donald Trump said the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's ability to train AI more cheaply is a "positive" development and should be a "wake-up call" for tech industries. Trump's comments followed DeepSeek's ascension to the top of Apple's free downloads chart,