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Anthropic’s CEO says DeepSeek shows US export rules are working


Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims the U.S.' export rules are working as intended, looking at DeepSeek's progress in the context of U.S. AI progress.

Amodei, who in the essay calls DeepSeek “very talented engineers” that “show why China is a serious competitor to the U.S.,” foresees a fork in the road depending on which export policies the Trump Administration embraces. “To be clear, the goal here is not to deny China or any other authoritarian country the immense benefits in science, medicine, quality of life, and so on that come from very powerful AI systems. In a Senate hearing on Wednesday, billionaire businessman Howard Lutnick, Trump’s pick for commerce secretary, accused DeepSeek of stealing American IP.

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