Such is the tension between the world’s two largest economies in an age of Trump and tariffs that January’s launch of Chinese artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek was labelled a “Sputnik moment” in an echo of Cold War superpower rivalries. US President Donald Trump called DeepSeek a “wake-up call” after the unheralded model stunningly matched or outperformed American generative large language market leader ChatGPT in reasoning, coding and mathematical tasks despite reportedly costing a fraction to develop and run. Loading…