DeepSeek AI claims a $6M breakthrough, but is it innovation or deception? Explore China's AI strategy, Wall Street’s reaction, and the truth behind its rapid rise.

The pace of artificial intelligence development and deployment is “pretty terrifying”. That’s the sentiment echoed by Steven Adler, a former safety researcher at OpenAI.

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek sent shares of major technology companies into a tailspin after it revealed a highly cost-effective AI model that was trained using limited resources but is competent enough to match the performance of more powerful and expensive models from the likes of OpenAI.