A look at what DeepSeek is and how it's shaking up the tech world: What is DeepSeek? DeepSeek is an AI lab. The startup says its AI models, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, are on par ...

Microsoft made DeepSeek's groundbreaking R1 AI model available on the Azure AI Foundry platform as well as GitHub.

Yet if fast followers such as DeepSeek can eat away at that lead for a fraction of the cost, then those profits are at risk.

And while American tech companies have spent billions trying to get ahead in the AI arms race, DeepSeek’s sudden popularity also shows that while it is heating up, the digital cold war between the US ...