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Entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, known for co-writing Mosaic, one of the world’s first web browsers, wrote Sunday on X that “DeepSeek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” likening it to the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and the event that forced the U.S. to realize that its technological abilities were not unassailable.

Some AI researchers hailed DeepSeek’s R1 as a breakthrough on the same level as DeepMind’s AlphaZero, a 2017 model that became superhuman at the board games Chess and Go by purely playing against itself and improving, rather than observing any human games.

A warning of a U.S. stock market bubble, advises diversification into value stocks, commodities, and international equities to mitigate risk.

A gauge of Chinese tech shares trading in Hong Kong was poised to enter a technical bull market after DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence model ignited interest in China’s internet firms.

China’s DeepSeek and President Trump’s tariffs can’t seem to derail the stock market. The S&P 500 is coming off back-to-back winning sessions, shrugging off two sizable sell-offs in back-to-back weeks as well as a weak showing from Big Tech earnings.