(FILES) This photo taken on September 1, 2025 shows the letters AI for Artificial Intelligence on a laptop screen (R) next to the the logo of the Deepseek AI application on a smartphone screen in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. Chinese startup DeepSeek released a new artificial intelligence model with "drastically reduced" costs on April 24, 2026, more than a year after it stunned the world with a low-cost reasoning model that matched the capabilities of US rivals. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP via Getty Images)