Trump’s AI czar flags report questioning DeepSeek’s cost of developing AI models

Trump’s AI czar flags report questioning DeepSeek’s cost of developing AI models

President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence (AI) czar, David Sacks, is pointing to evidence that China’s DeepSeek AI startup spent a lot more money developing its models than has been reported.

DeepSeek sent the U.S tech sector into turmoil on Monday after reporting that it had spent only $5.567 million to train its DeepSeek-V3 AI model, which is purportedly competitive with…

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