Startup DeekSeek is highlighting advances in China's AI industry. The Trump administration is weighing new restrictions on sending AI chips to China.

President Trump will meet with the CEO of chipmaking powerhouse Nvidia on Friday as the White House reportedly mulls tightening chip exports to China, a White House official confirmed to The Hill.

The hedge fund quant turned start-up leader rose from a rural Chinese village to overturn America’s AI monopoly

Chinese state-linked social media accounts amplified narratives celebrating the launch of Chinese startup DeepSeek's AI models last week, days before the news tanked U.S. tech stocks, according to online analysis firm Graphika.

A Chinese expert on Friday called on Western countries to view the rise of Chinese technology firms fairly, as Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek faces growing scrutiny from some countries following its rise in the international market.

Export controls need to be tightened after revelations the Chinese company used Nvidia technology, the leaders of a congressional committee said.

Two members of U.S. Congress are calling on President Donald Trump's administration to consider restricting the export of artificial intelligence chips made by Nvidia , alleging Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has relied on them.

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI firm specializing in large language models (LLMs). Founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, a co-founder of hedge fund High-Flyer, the company develops open-source AI models.

In the wake of the DeepSeek rout of U.S. technology stocks, Republican Senator Josh Hawley wants to stop chipmakers like Nvidia (NVDA) and AMD

Nvidia said in a statement it is "ready to work with the administration as it pursues its own approach to AI."

Did the upstart Chinese tech company DeepSeek copy ChatGPT to make the artificial intelligence technology that shook Wall Street this week?

Those who have had professional dealings with DeepSeek say he is obsessed with human-like artificial general intelligence ( AGI) and the impact it could have on the world. In his pursuit of it, DeepSeek’s founder is up-ending ideas about technological progress both in the West and China.