By Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo January 30, 2025 2:56 PM EST T his week, leaders across Silicon Valley, Washington D.C., Wall Street, and beyond have been thrown into disarray due to the unexpected rise of the Chinese AI company DeepSeek . DeepSeek recently released AI models that rivaled OpenAI’s, seemingly for a fraction of the price, and despite American policy designed to slow China’s progress. As a result, many analysts concluded that DeepSeek’s success undermined the core beliefs