China’s AI dark horse DeepSeek puts Western tech giants on the back foot
The news that an affordable artificial intelligence by DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has outperformed ChatGPT developer OpenAI on several benchmarks has upended the global AI industry. Tech analysts in the US are closely watching the emergence of a new contender in the field while noting that DeepSeek’s achievements epitomize the normal tendency for costs to fall with technological advancement.