To be sure, there are many reasons to be wary of doing anything to contribute to China's AI advances and successes like DeepSeek, from national security concerns about data sharing with the Chinese government, to ongoing hacking risks, to Chinese AI apps becoming popular enough to be used by Chinese intelligence to learn about Americans and American industries, and to sow division among the public.
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp told CNBC's Sara Eisen in a recent interview that "we have to run harder, run faster, have an all-country effort."