The developer of the chatbox that shocked U.S. incumbents had access to Nvidia chips that its parent company providentially acquired just before a 2022 U.S. export ban.

DeepSeek-R1, the latest in a series of models developed with fewer chips and at low cost, is challenging the dominance of OpenAI, Google, and Meta. View on euronews

DeepSeek: After US Navy, Congressional offices have been warned not to use DeepSeek, an upstart Chinese chatbot that is roiling the American AI market. Prior to this, the US Navy instructed its members to avoid using DeepSeek over national security concerns.