Trump calls China’s DeepSeek AI leap a ‘wake-up call’ for US tech
Tariffs could be imposed on foreign-made semiconductor chips, including those by Taiwan’s TSMC, if they are not made stateside
“Today and over the last couple of days, I’ve been reading about China and some of the companies in China, one in particular, coming up with a faster method of AI and much less expensive method,” Trump told Republican lawmakers in Miami, Florida.
“And that’s good, because you don’t have to spend as much money. I view that as a positive, as an asset.”
“The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company, should be a wake-up call for our industries, that we need to be laser focused on competing to win, because we have the greatest scientists in the world,” he added.
Trump also pledged that under his administration “we’re going to unleash our tech companies and we’re going to dominate the future like never before”.
And referring to American tech firms, he stated: “You’ll be doing that too, so you won’t be spending as much and you’ll get the same result.”
