DeepSeek poses a challenge to Beijing as much as to Silicon Valley

To be completely fair, this happens in every scenario. Competition is a real thing, and when it's extractable information, you're going to extract it and try to get a win,

Rao said

As the leading builder of AI, we engage in countermeasures to protect our IP, including a careful process for which frontier capabilities to include in released models,

the company said in a statement

It's impossible to stop model distillation when you have open-source models like Mistral and Llama. They are available to everybody. They can also find OpenAI's model somewhere through customers,

said Umesh Padval, managing director at Thomvest Ventures

That's not sufficient, because people can find ways to get around it,

Ross said

I do not believe that DeepSeek was done all above board. That's nonsense,

Lutnick said

Mark Zuckerbergmeta CEO

It's a huge geopolitical competition, and China's running at it super hard,

warned Facebook titan Mark Zuckerberg on the Joe Rogan podcast

America holds the lead in the AI race -- but our advantage may not last,

it warned, calling for government help in AI chip production, streamlining regulations and beefing up cybersecurity against national adversaries

Chuck Schumersenate Minority Leader

If America falls behind China on AI, we will fall behind everywhere: economically, militarily, scientifically, educationally, everywhere,

the US Senate's top Democrat Chuck Schumer said Tuesday

We know (China) based companies – and others – are constantly trying to distil the models of leading US AI companies,

an OpenAI spokesperson told AFP, highlighting tensions over AI intellectual property protection between the United States and China

Should the DeepSeek AI funding model prove sustainable, the AI tokens or projects that will stand the test of time will align with these models to bring users a cheap, functional AI solution,

Shadid projected

While temporary capitulation might take a short while, a comprehensive rebalancing is imminent,

Shadid said of the recent events that took place around the crypto market since DeepSeek's crash-landing in the tech space

Web3 AI innovators might find a way to align with Chinese tech in the mid to long term while hedging their alliance to get the best of both markets,

he said

It’s a super competitive industry, right? And this is showing that it’s competitive globally, not just within the US,

Weil said on a call with reporters about OpenAI’s new ChatGPT offering for government agencies, in response to a question from CNN

That crazy AI data center build-out that we’ve been talking about for the last couple of years? They don’t need to do that anymore. They can build a lot less because they can provide a lot more services at a much lower price,

Luria said

It’s so hard to own a scientific breakthrough” such as an AI model advancement

Kass said,

All those other frontier model labs — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google — are going to build far more efficient models based on what they’re learning from DeepSeek,

said Gil Luria, head of technology research at investment firm D.A. Davidson

Eric Schmidtformer Google CEO

The United States already has the best closed models in the world. To remain competitive, we must also support the development of a vibrant open-source ecosystem,

former Google CEO Eric Schmidt wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Tuesday

We are freaked out fairly, I suppose, because we thought we had global AI supremacy, when, in fact, we should be celebrating,

Kass said

DeepSeek's cost efficiency is praiseworthy, but the privacy implications of its data collection would raise significant concerns,

said Saeed Rehman, senior lecturer in cybersecurity and networking at Flinders University

It is interesting that this breakthrough was achieved not by government-backed research institutes and large (state-owned enterprises), but by a hedge fund with no government subsidies,

noted Zhiwei Zhang, president and chief economist at Pinpoint Asset Management