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Anthropic CEO doesn't see DeepSeek as 'adversaries,' but says export controls are critical

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a blog post Wednesday that he doesn't view China's DeepSeek "themselves as adversaries" but believes that export controls are more critical than ever when it comes to artificial intelligence.

"In interviews they've done, they seem like smart, curious researchers who just want to make useful technology," Amodei wrote, about DeepSeek. "But they're beholden to an authoritarian government that has committed human rights violations, has behaved aggressively on the world stage, and will be far more unfettered in these actions if they're able to match the US in AI."

DeepSeek's sudden emergence in the U.S. and its ascent to the top of on Apple's App Store rocked the tech markets this week, spurring a selloff in Nvidia's stock that resulted in the largest one-day market cap loss in U.S. history Monday. DeepSeek's new reasoning AI model, called R1, was a fraction of the cost to create relative to models built by U.S. competitors, according to analyst estimates.

The matter is of particular concern to Anthropic, which is competing with OpenAI, Google and others in the race to develop the most advanced generative AI model. Anthropic has raised billions of dollars from Amazon, and Google recently agreed to a more than $1 billion investment in the company, which was founded by former OpenAI research executives, including Amodei.

On Monday, U.S. lawmakers called for actions to slow down the Chinese tech startup, with some calling DeepSeek "a serious threat." U.S. Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick suggested during his Wednesday hearing that DeepSeek stole technology from the U.S. And David Sacks, the new White House AI and crypto czar, posted on X that DeepSeek R1 shows "that President Trump was

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