China's success in building DeepSeek R1 AI with home-grown talent has renewed the debate over H-1B visas that US tech giants used to hire temporary workers, especially from India. Though DeepSeek AI is being used to bash the hiring of Indians through H-1B,

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup that sent tech stocks reeling this week, sparked fresh concerns about U.S. companies losing

B AI model on its wafer-scale processor, delivering 57x faster speeds than GPU solutions and challenging Nvidia's AI chip dominance with U.S.-based inference processing.

U.S. companies were spooked when the Chinese startup released models said to match or outperform leading American ones at a fraction of the cost.

Computer scientist and AI expert Andrew Ng didn't explicitly mention the significance of R1 being an open source model, but highlighted how the DeepSeek disruption is a boon for developers, since it allows access that is otherwise gatekept by Big Tech.

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In another post, the company confirmed that it hosts DeepSeek "in US/EU data centers - your data never leaves Western servers," assuring users that their data would be safe if usi

Microsoft confirmed it will bring the DeepSeek R1 model to Azure cloud and GitHub in a move that it hopes will lessen its reliance on OpenAI's models.

The upstart AI chip company Cerebras has started offering China’s market-shaking DeepSeek on its U.S. servers.

For now, ChatGPT remains the better-rounded and more capable product, offering a suite of features that DeepSeek simply cannot match.

Despite the controversy surrounding the Chinese open-source model, it has received the blessing of US companies that say their versions of it are safer and feature less censorship.