{"id":1434,"date":"2025-01-28T07:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T08:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2025-01-28T09:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T09:13:35","slug":"chinas-breakthrough-ai-app-a-wake-up-call-for-us-tech-firms-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/chinas-breakthrough-ai-app-a-wake-up-call-for-us-tech-firms-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s breakthrough AI app a \u2018wake-up call\u2019 for US tech firms \u2013 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

DeepSeek\u2019s rise should prompt American companies to come up with cheaper, faster artificial intelligence, the US president has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has described China\u2019s DeepSeek AI as a significant \u201cwake-up call\u201d<\/em> for US technology firms, highlighting its cost-effectiveness. He said American companies would need to intensify AI development to stay competitive.<\/p>\n

Developed by Hangzhou-based startup DeepSeek Inc., the AI assistant of the same name was released last week and has since become the most popular program on Apple\u2019s US App Store, surpassing US-based OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Florida on Monday, Trump commented on the app\u2019s success, pointing to its faster and more cost-effective development. \u201cThat\u2019s good because you don\u2019t have to spend this much money. I view that as a positive, as an asset,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser focused on competing to win,\u201d<\/em> he urged, adding that it should prompt rival US firms to come up with more cost-effective solutions.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo instead of spending billions and billions, you\u2019ll spend less\u201d<\/em> to achieve the same results, the president said. Trump stated that the US has \u201cthe greatest scientists in the world\u201d<\/em> so it should not be hard for them to compete with DeepSeek.<\/p>\n

DeepSeek\u2019s sudden rise follows years of US-China rivalry in artificial intelligence, with Washington using export controls to block Beijing\u2019s acquisition of advanced chips. However, the app\u2019s success has sparked concerns about US technological dominance. The company says it used less advanced chips than those used by competitor ChatGPT or Meta\u2019s latest offering, while reportedly achieving equivalent performance.<\/p>\n

US officials are divided on DeepSeek. David Sacks, Trump\u2019s White House AI and cryptocurrency chief, shared Trump\u2019s cautiously positive view, writing on X that it \u201cshows that the AI race will be very competitive.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>However, House Speaker Mike Johnson called the new AI \u201ca serious threat,\u201d<\/em> accusing China of \u201cabusing\u201d<\/em> the trade system and \u201cstealing\u201d<\/em> US intellectual property.<\/p>\n

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Rep. John Moolenaar, the chair of the US House Select Committee on China, also alleged the app poses a threat to US national security and suggested Washington should look for a way to slow its spread.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe US cannot allow CCP [Chinese Communist Party] models such as DeepSeek to risk our national security and leverage our technology to advance their AI ambitions. We must work to swiftly place stronger export controls on technologies critical to DeepSeek\u2019s AI infrastructure,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DeepSeek\u2019s rise should prompt American companies to come up with cheaper, faster artificial intelligence, the US president has said President Donald Trump has described China\u2019s DeepSeek AI as a significant \u201cwake-up call\u201d for US technology firms, highlighting its cost-effectiveness. He said American companies would need to intensify AI development to stay competitive. Developed by Hangzhou-based…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}