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  • Tech mogul doubts DeepSeek claims, says US media fell for ‘CCP propaganda’

    Tech mogul doubts DeepSeek claims, says US media fell for ‘CCP propaganda’

    Anduril founder Palmer Luckey gives his take on DeepSeek and drone manufacturing on ‘The Claman Countdown.’

    American entrepreneur Palmer Luckey is not buying a lot of the hype this week over Chinese startup DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) models and accused the U.S. media of “mindlessly” reporting the company’s claims.

    In an exclusive interview Tuesday on FOX Business’ “The Claman Countdown,” Luckey pointed to the widespread reporting on how DeepSeek said it spent only $5 million to train an AI model that is purportedly competitive with some AI models developed in America that cost billions. 

    Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, during an interview on “The Circuit with Emily Chang” at Anduril’s headquarters in Costa Mesa, Calif., Dec. 14, 2023.  (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

    Luckey, who sold Oculus to Facebook for billions of dollars and is the founder of defense firm Anduril, noted DeepSeek did not release the full costs of both models it developed, and he accused the media of ignoring that a significant portion of the AI startup’s infrastructure costs are still unknown.

    DEEPSEEK IS THE NEWEST FRONT IN THE AI COMPETITION BETWEEN THE US AND CHINA

    “I think the problem is they put out that number specifically to harm U.S. companies,” Luckey said. “You had a lot of useful idiots in U.S. media kind of just mindlessly reporting that that’s the case, and neither China nor the media nor DeepSeek has any kind of incentive to correct the record as a lot of U.S. companies like Nvidia crashed to the tunes of hundreds of billions of dollars.”

    DeepSeek's AI chatbot

    Newly launched Chinese AI app DeepSeek has surged to No. 1 in Apple’s App Store, triggering a sell-off of U.S. tech stocks over concerns that Chinese companies’ AI advances could threaten the bottom line of tech giants in the U.S. and Europe. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images / Getty Images)

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    DeepSeek’s model appears able to match the capability of chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Llama but at a fraction of the development cost. It also rose to No. 1 on the Apple App Store over the weekend and is reportedly able to use reduced-capability chips from Nvidia.

    Those revelations slammed the U.S. tech sector Monday.

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    NVDA NVIDIA CORP. 128.86 +10.44 +8.82%
    I:COMP NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX 19733.586284 +391.75 +2.03%

    Luckey did concede that DeepSeek has made impressive strides and innovations in AI but warned against buying too much into what the company is reporting.

    “I don’t think that people should take what they’re saying at face value, and they should realize that there are a lot of people cheering for the United States to fail,” he said. “There’s people who are clearly cheering for our tech companies to fail and, obviously, President Trump to fail. It’s a shame that so many of them are in the United States.

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    “There’s a reason they put out the news that way, and if the stock market is any indication, it’s accomplishing exactly what they hoped to,” Luckey added. “So, look, we can recognize that Chinese AI is a real competitive threat without losing our minds over it and falling for CCP [Chinese Communist Party] propaganda.”

    FOX Business’ Suzanne O’Halloran contributed to this report.

  • AI startup DeepSeek facing hack, blocks questions about CCP

    AI startup DeepSeek facing hack, blocks questions about CCP

    “The Big Money Show” panel reacts to DeepSeek’s alleged malicious hacking and raises questions about the Chinese AI app’s impact on the tech market sell-off.

    DeepSeek is temporarily limiting new user registrations amid what the China-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup is calling “large-scale malicious attacks,” while users who have begun using its AI assistant note it won’t discuss topics that are politically sensitive in China, including the Tiananmen Square massacre.

    DeepSeek’s announcement of a new AI model last week that touted a comparable performance to OpenAI’s ChatGPT at a lower cost than U.S. peers spurred a surge in interest that propelled its AI assistant to the top of the Apple App Store ahead of ChatGPT.

    The sudden emergence of what’s perceived as a challenger to U.S. firms’ AI edge prompted a sell-off of leading tech stocks on Monday, while DeepSeek found itself battling a cyberattack and taking steps to curb sign-ups as it deals with those issues.

    “Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek’s services, we are temporarily limiting registrations to ensure continued service,” DeepSeek wrote in a post on the company’s status web page. “Existing users can log in as usual. Thanks for your understanding and support.”

    WHAT IS CHINESE AI STARTUP DEEPSEEK?

    Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is facing what it calls “large-scale malicious attacks” that disrupted its services. (Getty Images)

    As of early afternoon on Monday, DeepSeek reported a partial outage with its web chat service along with degraded performance of its application programming interface. It also noted recent issues related to logins and sign-ups that occurred earlier on Monday and were resolved. DeepSeek hasn’t released more information about the nature of the cyberattack or when it plans to restore user sign-ups as of Monday afternoon.

    DeepSeek released its R1 model last week, which the company said is 20 to 50 times cheaper to use than OpenAI’s o1 model, depending on the task, according to a post on DeepSeek’s official WeChat account.

    CHINESE APP DEEPSEEK HAMMERS US STOCKS WITH CHEAPER OPEN-SOURCE AI MODEL

    DeepSeek AI

    DeepSeek’s AI assistant app leaped to the top of the Apple App Store after its release last week. (Christoph Dernbach/picture alliance via Getty Images)

    The model’s release prompted some figures in the tech sector to observe that DeepSeek’s model is a challenge to OpenAI and other U.S. leaders in the AI sector that have invested billions into developing AI models and expanding the chip infrastructure used to do so.

    Jack Clark, the co-founder of AI startup Anthropic, wrote in his “Import AI” newsletter, “R1 is significant because it broadly matches OpenAI’s o1 model on a range of reasoning tasks and challenges the notion that Western AI companies hold a significant lead over Chinese ones.”

    Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, wrote in a post on X that “Deepseek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment.”

    While DeepSeek’s emergence has shaken up the global tech sector, users who are trying out the app have reported that the app appears to block responses about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and politically sensitive topics.

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    Xi Jinping CCP

    DeepSeek’s AI chatbot declined to respond to questions about Chinese leader Xi Jinping as well as other politically sensitive topics in China, like the Tiananmen Square massacre, Taiwan’s independence and Uyghur persecution. (Florence Lo/Pool/AFP via Getty Images/File)

    FOX Business confirmed that when DeepSeek’s AI chatbot was asked about what happened during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests that ended with a violent crackdown by the Chinese military, the chatbot responded, “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.” The DeepSeek chatbot offered the same response to a query about whether Chinese President Xi Jinping is a good leader. 

    When prompted with a question about the Uyghurs – a Muslim minority group that primarily resides in China’s Xinjiang region and has reportedly faced mass human rights abuses at the hands of the CCP – the DeepSeek app initially appeared to post a lengthy response acknowledging that it’s a contentious topic. However, it stopped typing, and the response disappeared and was replaced by its message about the topic being beyond its current scope.

    DeepSeek’s chatbot was also asked whether Taiwan, a self-governing democratic nation that has been independent since the end of the Chinese Civil War, is a country. The CCP has vowed to compel Taiwan’s reunification with mainland China, by force if necessary.

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    “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China and there is no such thing as ‘Taiwan independence.’ The Chinese government adheres to the One-China principle and opposes any form of ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist activities. We are committed to achieving the complete reunification of the motherland through peaceful means and have always promoted the peaceful development of cross-strait relations. This is the common aspiration of all Chinese people,” DeepSeek’s chatbot wrote.

    U.S. House Select Committee on the CCP Chair John Moolenaar, R-Mich., said in a statement, “DeepSeek – a new AI model controlled by the Chinese Communist Party – openly erases the CCP’s history of atrocities and oppression. The U.S. cannot allow CCP models such as DeepSeek to risk our national security and leverage our technology to advance their AI ambitions. We must work to swiftly place stronger export controls on technologies critical to DeepSeek’s AI infrastructure.”

    FOX Business’ Madison Alworth and Chase Williams contributed to this report.