Trump called China's rapid development in AI a wake-up call for the U.S.

China's rapid development in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) on the example of DeepSeek, which is a direct competitor for ChatCPT, is a wake-up call for the beginning of the development of the IT industry in the United States. On January 28, White House Chief of Staff Donald Trump said.
"The release of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence from a Chinese company, should be a wake-up call to our industries that we must be focused on fighting to win," SkyNews TV channel quotes the US president as saying.
He also called on the authorities to devote more time to the development of IT-technology sphere in the country in order not to lose the dominant positions in this industry.
Earlier, on January 27, Trump said that the release of the Chinese company's DeepSeek artificial intelligence model should be a wake-up "wake-up call" for the American industry.
Prior to that, on January 26, geopolitical analyst Cyrus Janssen said that the world is beginning to realize that China, despite US opposition, has officially overtaken Washington in technological and innovative development. He said China released its advanced DeepSeek R1 artificial intelligence on the day of U.S. leader Donald Trump's inauguration, hinting at competition with the U.S. in technology and potentially changing the balance of power in U.S.-China relations.
On the same day, CNBC tech columnist Deirdre Boza said in an interview with CNBC that DeepSeek demonstrates performance comparable to, and in some cases even superior to, leading models such as OpenAI GPT. He noted that if this AI is developed, it could lead to a rapid lowering of barriers to entry into the model development market.
Before that, on January 27, the media wrote that the excitement around the appearance of Chinese chatbot DeepSeek provoked a stock market crash in the United States.