Trump said DeepSeek was a “wake-up call” for the U.S. tech industry and his AI advisor David Sacks accused DeepSeek of training its model on stolen OpenAI data. The DeepSeek chatbot app now faces investigations, and in some cases, bans in the U.S. and a number of other countries over privacy and security concerns.

The more interesting conversation on the AI race between the US and China is there seems to be no clear finish line. Unlike the nuclear arms race or race to the moon, which both had reasonably explicit goals, AI development lacks a definitive endpoint.

It's the latest in a series of global dialogues around AI governance, but one that comes at a fresh inflection point as China's buzzy and budget-friendly DeepSeek chatbot shakes up the industry.

Xi Jinping will be sending his special envoy, signalling high stakes for the meeting hosted by French President Macron and Indian PM Modi.