Israel’s Path to Becoming an AI Powerhouse Requires Cooperation with America

Last month, a Chinese company called DeepSeek launched R1, an artificial-intelligence assistant similar to ChatGPT, which generated much media attention and was widely downloaded in the U.S. DeepSeek claimed that the program's training (i.e., the process whereby large amounts of information are fed into its algorithms) could be done with far less computing power than is used for the competing software—and therefore far more cheaply.