DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT fuels debate over AI building blocks
Voice of America
The icons for the smartphone apps DeepSeek and ChatGPT are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, Jan. 28, 2025.
When Chinese startup DeepSeek released its AI model this month, it was hailed as a breakthrough, a sign that China’s artificial intelligence companies could compete with their Silicon Valley counterparts using fewer resources.
FILE - An aide carries nuclear codes to Marine One, the president's helicopter, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Jan. 20, 2021. President Donald Trump left from there before Joe Biden's inauguration as president. FILE - U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru, Nov. 16, 2024. (Pool/AFP) FILE - President Barack Obama, left, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START treaty at the Prague Castle in Prague, April 8, 2010. The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, set at 89 seconds to midnight, is displayed during a news conference at the United States Institute of Peace, Jan. 28, 2025, in Washington.
Government soldiers and police officers, at right, who surrendered to M23 rebels, left, board trucks to an undisclosed location in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Jan. 30, 2025. In Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, a shop sits looted with the name of Rwandan President Paul Kagame written on a door following clashes in the eastern DRC city, on Jan. 30, 2025.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame addresses a press conference at the Kigali Convention Center, in Kigali, Rwanda, Jan. 9, 2025. Members of the M23 rebel group supervise the exit of mercenary troops in the streets of Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, amid conflict between them and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), Jan. 29, 2025.
Hindu devotees pray during the Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, India, Jan. 29, 2025. A volunteer helps people to look for their valuables after a stampede when Hindu devotees rushed to take a holy bath during the Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, India, Jan. 29, 2025. An injured girl reacts as she is being treated at a hospital after a stampede at the Maha Kumbh festival, in Prayagraj, India, Jan. 29, 2025
An AI robot moves past an office information board showing the DeepSeek smartphone apps company in Beijing, Jan. 28, 2025. China has been using Google's artificial intelligence-enabled Gemini chatbot to supercharge cyberattacks against U.S. targets. FILE - Screenshot of the warning screen from a purported ransomware attack, as captured by a computer user in Taiwan, is seen on a laptop in Beijing, May 13, 2017.
M23 rebels patrol the streets of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan. 29, 2025. Members of the Congolese Red Cross gather the bodies of victims from the recent clashes at the morgue of the Provincial Hospital of North Kivu in Goma on Jan. 29, 2025. Residents swim while carrying their jerrycans as they gather to collect water amid ongoing water shortages at the shore of Lake Kivu in Goma, Jan. 29, 2025. A man collects files next to the wreckage of burned vehicles at the Rwandan Embassy a day after an attack on the building during a demonstration against the escalating conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in Kinshasa, on Jan. 29, 2025.