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Why US AI firms are uneasy with China's Deepseek

This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing on January 27, 2025. [Photo: GREG BAKER / AFP)

In the past year, ChatGPT developed by OpenAI has had great success in the Artificial intelligence (AI) space but that has come at a cost of over $5 billion (Sh645 billion). Now, Deepseek, a Chinese startup has launched its AI model that is much cheaper and has disrupted Silicon Valley.

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