DeepSeek Facing Legal Challenges In Overseas Market

Recently, a Chinese AI startup named DeepSeek has garnered widespread attention globally. On January 27, 2025, DeepSeek's AI assistant simultaneously topped the free charts of the Apple App Store in both China and the United States, becoming the first Chinese tech product to achieve a double-chart victory. DeepSeek has received market attention for its high-performance, low-cost AI models. The DeepSeek-R1, for example, has a training cost only onethirtieth of that of similar models from OpenAI, and it has demonstrated strong capabilities in areas such as natural language processing and computer vision.

The emergence of DeepSeek has disrupted the market landscape dominated by traditional AI giants. Its open-source and low-cost approach has posed a significant challenge to hardware suppliers like Nvidia and software giants like OpenAI. By innovating algorithms, DeepSeek has reduced the reliance on high-performance chips, thereby challenging the U.S. monopoly on