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.

Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Trump advisor Marc Andreessen described DeepSeek-R1 as "AI's Sputnik moment", a reference to the satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. At the time, the US was considered to have been caught off-guard by their rival's technological achievement.

The surge in popularity of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app DeepSeek has sparked a selloff of shares in major tech companies after it overtook rivals such as ChatGPT to become the top-rated free app on Apple's App Store.

With Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Microsoft is introducing pay-as-you-go AI agents to the free version of its Copilot chatbot for businesses.

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

The Chinese app has soared to the top of app store charts and claims to match ChatGPT’s performance in some tasks.

DeepSeek researchers claim it was developed for less than $6 million, a contrast to the $100 million it takes U.S. tech startups to create AI.

Elon Musk asked a judge to block OpenAI's attempt to transition from nonprofit to for-profit. It's not the first time he's feuded with CEO Sam Altman.

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

One of the biggest losers was Nvidia boss Jensen Huang (pictured) after shares in the computer chips maker suffered the biggest one-day drop in history.

Fear that the artificial-intelligence trade driving the market is unraveling sent shares of market leader Nvidia and many others, down sharply Monday. Exactly what the emergence of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI chatbot,

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