Tech mogul doubts DeepSeek claims, says US media fell for ‘CCP propaganda’

American entrepreneur Palmer Luckey is not buying a lot of the hype this week over Chinese startup DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) models and accused the U.S. media of “mindlessly” reporting the company’s claims.

In an exclusive interview Tuesday on FOX Business’ “The Claman Countdown,” Luckey pointed to the widespread reporting on how DeepSeek said it spent only $5 million to train an AI model that is purportedly competitive with some AI models developed in America that cost b