WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - China's DeepSeek was able to create a powerful artificial intelligence model "dirt cheap" by leveraging stolen U.S. technology and advanced U.S. semiconductors, President Donald Trump's U.S. commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick told senators on Wednesday, vowing to address that.

Lutnick also said the U.S. needs to set a "light touch" model to create global standards in AI, similar to the U.S. standard for cybersecurity, to maintain its leadership in the sector.

We need to make sure we set standards that the world meets," Lutnick told the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. "And I think that's the way we'll keep our lead. Do it the American way, which we know is the winning way."

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