We have a breakthrough new player on the artificial intelligence field: DeepSeek is an AI assistant developed by a Chinese company called DeepSeek. Thanks to social media, DeepSeek has been breaking the internet for the last few days.

A new and largely unknown Chinese AI system called DeepSeek has rocked the tech industry and global markets. Tech shares plunged and chip maker Nvidia suffered falls of nearly 17 per cent on Monday, as President Donald Trump warned DeepSeek’s emergence was a “wake up call” for existing AI giants.

A frenzy over an artificial intelligence chatbot made by Chinese tech startup DeepSeek was upending stock markets Monday and fueling debates over the economic and geopolitical competition between the U.