For the second time in the last month, a Chinese app has skyrocketed to the top spot in Apple’s App Store. The first was Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, which saw a sudden surge in downloads by United States users seeking an alternative to TikTok in anticipation of the ban on that app,

SINGAPORE—The unexpected success of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has revealed cracks in U.S. efforts to contain China’s technology ambitions, challenging both Washington and Silicon Valley to rethink how best to preserve American supremacy.

The emergence of the DeepSeek chatbot has sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy, with calls to go faster on advancing artificial intelligence and beat communist-led China before it is too

Max's release points to the pressure DeepSeek's meteoric rise in the past three weeks has placed on overseas rivals and domestic competition.

Alibaba announced a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model on Wednesday, the first day of the Lunar Year in China. The Chinese tech company argued that Qwen 2.5 surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.

The sudden release of the Alibaba AI model is a sign of the pressure created in the industry after the meteoric rise of the Chinese AI newcomer DeepSeek