Trump calls DeepSeek a 'wake up call'
President Donald Trump said DeepSeek, the low-cost Chinese AI model, is a "wake-up call" for US companies. "Hopefully, the release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake up call for our industries," Trump told Republicans at an annual retreat in Miami. Trump also called the DeepSeek news “positive,” because “you won’t be spending as much and you’ll get the same result.” DeepSeek was founded in 2023 in China and released its first AI large language model later that year.