Trump said he had been reading about the company and saw their apparent breakthrough as “good, because you don’t have to spend as much money.”
“I view that as a positive, as an asset,” Trump said.
“The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win,” Trump continued. “Because we have the greatest scientists in the world, even Chinese leadership told me that. They said you have the most brilliant scientists in the world.”
