DeepSeek: Is China’s AI tool as good as it seems?

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI-chatbot app which launched last week, has sparked chaos in the US markets and raised questions about the future of America’s AI dominance. The BBC takes a look at how the app works.

DeepSeek looks and feels like any other chatbot, though it leans towards being overly chatty.

Just as with OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini, you open the app (or website) and ask it questions about anything, and it does its best to give you a response.

It gives long answers and…