European Media: DeepSeek Proves US Tech Sanctions a Mistaken Path

The DeepSeek AI model from China has achieved performance comparable to its US rivals at a lower cost with open-source code, which has become a global media hotspot. European newspapers and periodicals have commented that China's unexpected catch-up highlights the failure of the US containment policy and shows the way for Europe to catch up.

German media "RND" commented that a Chinese startup's AI model causing huge market value evaporation of an established company shows the crazy situation in the AI field, while the"Süddeutsche Zeitung" believed that DeepSeek breaks the US monopoly and makes AI more accessible.(Photo/VCG)

By Fu Rui, Liu Lingxi (Intern), and Yuan Ye/China Youth Daily