AI Imperative 2030's first Sentinel Brief received exclusive coverage from the Washington Examiner today for exposing “extensive” financial and political ties between DeepSeek, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence tool, and the Chinese Communist Party. According to the article:

DeepSeek sent shockwaves through markets after the company said it had spent just $5.6 million on computing power for its base model, a fraction of the cost of OpenAI’s, Meta, or Google’s popular AI models. However, the American Security Project found DeepSeek is peddling fiction.

“DeepSeek’s narrative as a scrappy startup matching the output and sophistication of American AI for less money is a carefully constructed myth. It was a failing company before Chinese agencies, military contractors, and state-owned enterprises injected massive financial investments, subsidies, hardware, digital infrastructure, and other support into it,” says Courtney Manning, director of AI Imperative 2030 at the American Security Project.

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