Developers at leading US AI firms are praising the DeepSeek AI models that have leapt into prominence while also trying to poke holes in the notion that their multi-billion dollar technology has been bested by a Chinese newcomer’s low-cost alternative.
Chinese startup DeepSeek on Monday sparked a stock selloff and its free AI assistant overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT atop Apple’s (AAPL.O) App Store in the US, harnessing a model it said
