The early January launch of Chinese startup DeepSeek’s Artificial Intelligence models, which rival, if not outright eclipse, the capabilities of all current industry leaders at a negligible fraction of the cost, has been widely hailed by Western news outlets as a revolutionary disruption of the U.S.-dominated tech world order. Hundreds of billions have been shaved off American AI giant Nvidia’s stock price. Silicon Valley is frenziedly imploring Donald Trump to take decisive action and regain