Inside AI Policy

February 8, 2025

CFR pulls together key policy takeaways from DeepSeek announcement

By Charlie Mitchell / February 3, 2025

Council on Foreign Relations president Michael Froman pulled together CFR’s policy experts to weigh in on how Chinese firm DeepSeek managed to produce a low-cost, high-performance artificial intelligence model that has triggered intense debate over issues such as the efficacy of U.S. export controls and whether China has erased U.S. technological advantages.

Froman in his Jan. 31 “The World This Week” column presented takeaways from six CFR fellows on “how DeepSeek was able to match the performance of other...


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