The chatbot from China appears to perform a number of tasks as well as its American competitors do, but it censors topics such as Tiananmen Square.

Chatbot is a computer program that’s designed to emulate human conversation and converse with human users. Learn more here.

US tech giant Nvidia lost over a sixth of its value after the surging popularity of a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app spooked investors in the US and Europe. DeepSeek, a Chinese AI chatbot reportedly made at a fraction of the cost of its rivals, launched last week but has already become the most downloaded free app in the US.

Announced a week ago, DeepSeek-R1 — a model which is said to use more concise “reasoning patterns”, less data, and lower-cost chips than leading US models — has helped DeepSeek's app top the Apple App Store charts in Australia, the US, and UK.

DeekSeek’s chatbot with the R1 model is a stunning release from the Chinese startup. While it’s an innovation in training efficiency, hallucinations still run rampant.

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The introduction of a Chinese chatbot on Monday knocked $1 trillion off the top US tech index, igniting the fight for dominance in artificial intelligence

DeepSeek R1, China's latest AI model, has taken the tech world by storm, surpassing ChatGPT in downloads. The model's success has led to a significant selloff in technology stocks globally, raising questions about the future of AI development.

The emergence of DeepSeek's free assistant has placed big doubts over the US market's AI-driven rally of the past two years.

Fears of upheaval in the AI gold rush rocked Wall Street on Monday following the emergence of a popular ChatGPT-like model from China, with US President Donald Trump saying it

US tech giant Nvidia lost over a sixth of its value after the surging popularity of a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app spooked investors in the US and Europe. DeepSeek, a Chinese AI chatbot reportedly made at a fraction of the cost of its rivals, launched last week but has already become the the most downloaded free app in the US.

Shares in major US technology firms have plunged after the rapid rise of a low-cost chatbot built by a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm.