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president Trump says the rapid rise of the Chinese artificial intelligence company deep seek is a wakeup call for the US tech industry deep seek which its owners say cost around just $6 million to develop has become the most downloaded free app in the US it appears to require less powerful computer chips than its American Tech Giant Rivals but Mr Trump said he was confident that the US would remain dominant in the field our North America technology correspondent ly jamali has more from a vir ual unknown to most downloaded app in Apple's Us app store deep

seek has become an overnight sensation it's an AI chatbot similar to open AI chat GPT which first catapulted AI into the mainstream deep seek can offer quick and comprehensive answers to your questions from who is King Charles to what should I make for dinner introduced last week by Monday it had caught fire in the US sending shock waves through Global markets deep seeks Chinese developers claim they trained its models for a fraction of the funds and computing power used by competitors deep seek really changes the game it's not that it's better than any existing models

but it's cheaper and it doesn't require as many h100s and a lot of the US foreign policy around AI has been about how many of these fancy chips other people get to use and China figured out a workaround to that US tech stocks sent into free fre fall shares of the AI chip designer Nvidia most notably fell by as much as 177% on Monday but spend enough time on deep seek and you notice that it doesn't answer certain questions when our team asked what happened at tanaman Square the response we got was I'm sorry I

cannot answer that question I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses from what we've observed deep sea consistently steers clear of answering questions that might be deemed politically sensitive by China in the particular case of deep seek they have a bias built in to say things that are consistent with what the Chinese party wants them to say the delei example where it gave an answer and walked the answer back shows you that something has been added on bolted on to try to make this thing conform to somebody's idea of what's politically

acceptable China and the US are embroiled in an AI race just last week president Donald Trump announced Stargate a joint venture involving a half trillion dollar investment by Global Tech Giants in AI infrastructure the release of deep seek AI from a Chinese company should be a wakeup call for our industries that we need to be laser focused on competing to win the UK government says Britain's 14 billion pound AI infrastructure investment also remains on track with the arrival of deep seek the AI race has just grown more more heated Lily jamali BBC News San Francisco