Chinese authorities are instructing the country's top artificial intelligence entrepreneurs and researchers to avoid travel to the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Beijing increasingly views cutting-edge technology through a national-interest lens, putting executives on a tighter leash.

China instructs its AI entrepreneurs and research experts to avoid travelling to the United States, citing security concerns.

DeepSeek has revealed they makes $200M/yr at 85%+ profit margins. This means their profits margins are larger than the 72-77% profit margins of Nvidia.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek on Saturday disclosed some cost and revenue data related to its hit V3 and R1 models, claiming a theoretical cost-profit ratio of up to 545% per day, though it cautioned that actual revenue would be significantly lower.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek recently declared that its AI models could be very profitable — with some asterisks. In a post on X, DeepSeek boasted that its