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Can DeepSeek Compete With OpenAI, Google and Anthropic? Low Prices Help, but Gaps and Chip Limits Remain

International Business Times AU

Can DeepSeek Compete With OpenAI, Google and Anthropic? Low Prices Help, but Gaps and Chip Limits Remain

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NEW YORK — Nearly two years after Chinese startup DeepSeek rattled global markets with a low-cost AI chatbot, the company has established itself as a serious challenger to American AI leaders on price and in some technical areas. But published benchmarks, hardware constraints and reliability problems suggest it still trails the top U.S. labs in several key respects.The question of whether DeepSeek can truly compete with OpenAI, Google and Anthropic has taken on new urgency as the Hangzhou-based company prepares a major shift to Chinese-made chips and as its service suffered another outage this week.Strong showing in codingDeepSeek's latest flagship, V4-Pro, was released as a preview on April 24, 2026, and reached general availability on Aug. 13.

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