Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving fast. It was only two years ago that OpenAI's GPT-3.5 models sparked the AI arms race, and the pace of innovation has since been staggering. But the best innovations often come out of left field.

The Japanese corporation SoftBank Group has shown interest in investing as much as $25 billion in OpenAI, which would make it the organization’s biggest financial sponsor. According to a Bloomberg report,

DeepSeek has released an open version of its 'reasoning' AI model, DeepSeek-R1, that it claims performs as well as OpenAI's o1 on certain benchmarks.

Shares of AI-related hardware companies plunged on Monday, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ( TSM -14.11%), Marvell Technology ( MRVL -18.96%), and Arista Networks ( ANET -23.50%), which fell 14.4%, 18%, and 21.9%, respectively, as of 1:11 PM EDT.

OpenAI has announced that it's teaming up with Softbank and Oracle on $100 billion data center project in the U.S.

Joe Biden made several attempts to curb Chinese AI advancement, but DeepSeek's launch has put those policies into question.

DeepSeek released an open-source artificial intelligence model in December, saying it took only two months and less than $6 million to create it.

The dependency dance between AI pioneer OpenAI and the Microsoft Azure cloud and the application software divisions of its parent company are fascinating

ASML shares jump 9% as strong chip orders ease AI spending fears. Traders eye semiconductor stocks as demand for high-end chips remains resilient.

DeepSeek AI, favored by investors over ChatGPT, uses rapid advancements with cheaper chips as U.S. tech restrictions fuel China’s AI innovation.

President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, which could hit Nvidia, one of TSMC's biggest customers.