Trump promised to introduce duties on semiconductors in the context of an increase in the popularity of Deepseek

Trump said the rate will be “much higher” by the head of the Scott Chamber of Accounts with a 2.5%count. Such a measure is necessary to protect the US economy from foreign influence, explained the president.

“With the growth of tariffs for other countries, taxes for US workers and businesses will decrease, and a large number of jobs and factories will return to their homeland,” Trump said on Monday, February 27, at a meeting with the Republicans of the Republicans of the House of Representatives in their Deral Tourist Complex in Miami.

Trump’s statement on the plans to introduce tariffs for semiconductors a few hours after the Chinese deposit neuronal network “shocked the markets” and led to the multimillion -dollar losses of the western companies that developed AI, says Bloomberg. The Deepseek development, according to the company, cost only $ 5.6 million, which collected investors’ doubts about the need for multimillion -dollar investments in the creation of advanced AI models.

The president of the United States emphasized that the appearance of such a competitor “should become a signal” for US technology companies that “should focus on victory.” “For this, we have the best scientists in the world, which was told by Chinese leadership,” Trump said.

According to Bloomberg, the United States tried to restrict the progress of Chinese IA developers, limiting the export of Nvidia chips and other advanced technologies. However, Depseek’s success says that Chinese companies have found a way to overcome Washington’s export prohibitions, the agency points out.

Earlier this week, Depseek exceeded Openai chatgpt in popularity in the US Application Store. On their website, Deepseek developers have published a report according to which the latest Deepseek-R1 model shows the results comparable to OPENAI O1, and even exceeds the competitor in some tests.