Trump Calls Release of China's DeepSeek a 'Wake-Up Call' for American Industries

DeepSeek says its artificial intelligence models are comparable with those from US giants, like OpenAI which is behind ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, but potentially a fraction of the cost.

President Donald Trump said the sudden rise of the Chinese app DeepSeek "should be a wake-up call" for American companies developing artificial intelligence as they need to be laser-focused on competing to win.

DeepSeek says its artificial intelligence models are comparable with those from US giants, like OpenAI which is behind ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, but potentially a fraction of the cost.

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Trump also mentioned that DeepSeek is a positive development as it's cheaper.

"Today and over the last couple of days, I've been reading about China and some of the companies in China, one in particular coming up with a faster method of AI and a much less expensive method. That's good because you don't have to spend as much money. I view that as a positive as an asset," Trump told House Republicans on Monday at a Florida retreat, the first after he became the president.

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"So, I really feel that if it's a fact and if it is true and nobody really knows if it is, but I see that as a positive because you'll be doing that too. So, you won't be spending as much and you'll get the same result," he said and added quickly with a word of warning to the US tech companies.

"Hopefully, the 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 because we have the greatest scientists in the world. Even the Chinese leadership told me that," Trump said.

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"They said you have the most brilliant scientists in the world and Seattle and various places, but Silicon Valley. They said there's nobody like those people. This is very unusual. When you hear a DeepSeek, when you hear somebody come up with something, we always have the ideas," he said.

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