Earlier this year, a Chinese AI chatbot called DeepSeek sent Silicon Valley into a tailspin when it released a new AI model that rivaled the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, while relying on only a fraction of the computing power. The lean open-source AI model, dubbed DeepSeek R1, was so impressive that it sparked a massive tech selloff, wiping out $1 trillion from a market-sustaining AI spending boom in late January. Now, researchers at Spanish quantum computing company Multiverse claim to have found a workaround, MIT Technology Review reports. At the same time, much of the training data that went into these models may have already been affected by Chinese censorship, making it a thorny problem to solve in the long term. More on DeepSeek: Scientists Discover “Universal” Jailbreak for Nearly Every AI, and the Way It Works Will Hurt Your Brain