On Monday, as DeepSeek’s recently introduced innovations wiped over $1 trillion off the value of U.S. stocks, and just days after announcing a privately funded $500 billion AI infrastructure push, President Donald Trump said DeepSeek’s rise was “a wake-up call for our industries that we should be laser-focused on competing to win.”

President Donald Trump and OpenAI chief Sam Altman weighed in on the buzz surrounding DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup that rocked the U.S. tech sector on Monday.

President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence and crypto czar warned American investors not to panic after the remarkable development of a Chinese startup’s AI chatbot spooked global markets Monday.

Recent reports have revealed that the significant AI startup from the country China named DeepSeek which was being launched on US President Donald Trump inauguration day has gradually rattled the US President itself.

Donald Trump said rise of Chinese AI application DeepSeek is a wake up for US firms to focus on AI competition.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek rocked the U.S. tech sector by releasing an AI model that appeared to rival those built by leading AI labs—at a fraction of the price.

DeepSeek has shook the tech world with its cost-effective open-source models. The AI startup has received praises from all corners of the world including from its competitor OpenAI.

Entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, known for co-writing Mosaic, one of the world’s first web browsers, wrote Sunday on X that “DeepSeek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” likening it to the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and the event that forced the U.S. to realize that its technological abilities were not unassailable.

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Trump said on Tuesday (AEDT) that the launch of DeepSeek was a “wake-up call” to American tech firms. He said US companies “need to be laser-focused on competing to win.” However, Trump said the Made in China AI could also be positive and drive more American digital advancement.

Tempo conducted a test of the ChatGPT and DeepSeek AI chatbots using the same commands. Check out the comparison of the results.