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Investors are questioning whether DeepSeek's low-budget approach to AI could erode the dominance of U.S. tech giants in the booming sector. © Getty Images
RYOHTAROH SATOH
January 30, 2025 14:14 JST
TOKYO -- The tech industry and stock markets have spent much of this week trying to grasp how a small, relatively unknown Chinese company was able to develop a sophisticated artificial intelligence chatbot on par with Open AI's ChatGPT at a fraction of the cost.