SINGAPORE—A Chinese artificial-intelligence company has Silicon Valley marveling at how its programmers nearly matched American rivals despite using inferior chips. AI models from DeepSeek, the Chinese company,

Since Chinese AI company DeepSeek released an open version of its reasoning model R1 at the beginning of this week, many in the tech industry have been

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial-intelligence company, has Silicon Valley marveling over how its programmers nearly matched American rivals despite using inferior chips.

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek shakes up Silicon Valley with top-performing language model, challenging American tech dominance.