Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek's new AI model sparks worries about global AI competition, sending US stocks (^DJI,^GSPC, ^IXIC) sharply lower on Monday. Chipmakers Nvidia (NVDA) and Marvell Technology (MRVL) and energy provider Oklo (OKLO) are among the AI-related stocks tumbling on the news,

Deepseek collects similar data to American-based AI models, but Chinese laws could make that data more accessible to the government.

By Stephen Nellis, Krystal Hu, Jeffrey Dastin, Anna Tong and Katie Paul (Reuters) - Top White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China's DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of U.

In some ways, DeepSeek was far less censored than most Chinese platforms, offering answers with keywords that would often be quickly scrubbed on domestic social media. Other times, the program eventually censored itself.