{"id":17519,"date":"2025-01-28T20:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/what-will-washington-do-about-chinese-startup-deepseek-and-its-ai-chatbot\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T20:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:40:06","slug":"what-will-washington-do-about-chinese-startup-deepseek-and-its-ai-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/what-will-washington-do-about-chinese-startup-deepseek-and-its-ai-chatbot\/","title":{"rendered":"What will Washington do about Chinese startup DeepSeek and its AI chatbot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the TikTok ban hangs in the air, the US investigates the security implications of another mega-popular Chinese app<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/28\/who-is-behind-deepseek-and-how-did-it-achieve-its-ai-sputnik-moment\">Who is behind DeepSeek and how did it achieve its AI \u2018Sputnik moment\u2019?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The White House said on Tuesday that it was investigating the national security implications of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/deepseek\">DeepSeek<\/a>\u2019s rapid rise.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese AI startup released an open-sourced problem-solving model, R1, that has wowed Silicon Valley. According to the company, the model uses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/china-ai-deepseek-chatbot-6ac4ad33\">far less computing power and far fewer chips<\/a> \u2013 therefore far less money \u2013 to achieve the same or better results as its US counterparts. DeepSeek\u2019s app, an AI assistant, has rocketed to the top of app stores in the US and UK, though it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/27\/deepseek-cyberattack-ai\">suffered a cyberattack<\/a> on Monday that led the company to limit registrations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/28\/deepseek-ai-us-response\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/80f9c49b7252b20135322ed0702c2f3f7e9e1994\/0_316_4722_2832\/master\/4722.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=32819dd3ef789a2cb744d3c2e98a259f\" title=\"What will Washington do about Chinese startup DeepSeek and its AI chatbot?\" \/>As the TikTok ban hangs in the air, the US investigates the security implications of another mega-popular Chinese app<br \/>\nWho is behind DeepSeek and how did it achieve its AI \u2018Sputnik moment\u2019?<br \/>\nThe White House said on Tuesday that it was investigating the national security implications of DeepSeek\u2019s rapid rise.<br \/>\nThe Chinese AI startup released an open-sourced problem-solving model, R1, that has wowed Silicon Valley. According to the company, the model uses far less computing power and far fewer chips \u2013 therefore far less money \u2013 to achieve the same or better results as its US counterparts. DeepSeek\u2019s app, an AI assistant, has rocketed to the top of app stores in the US and UK, though it suffered a cyberattack on Monday that led the company to limit registrations. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the TikTok ban hangs in the air, the US investigates the security implications of another mega-popular Chinese app Who is behind DeepSeek and how did it achieve its AI \u2018Sputnik moment\u2019? The White House said on Tuesday that it was investigating the national security implications of DeepSeek\u2019s rapid rise. The Chinese AI startup released &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/what-will-washington-do-about-chinese-startup-deepseek-and-its-ai-chatbot\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What will Washington do about Chinese startup DeepSeek and its AI chatbot?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}