DeepSeek has become one of the world’s best known chatbots and much of that is due to it being developed in China – a country that wasn’t, until now, considered to be at the forefront of AI technology. Having produced a model that is on a par, in terms of performance, with OpenAI’s acclaimed o1 model, it quickly caught the imagination of users who helped it to shoot to the top of the iOS App Store chart. But while it’s more than capable of answering questions and generating code, with OpenAI’s Sam Altman going as far as calling the AI...