CEO Tim Cook visited the Chinese technology hub of Hangzhou, also the home of AI startup DeepSeek (DEEPSEEK), on Wednesday amid his first official visit to the Asian nation this year. Cook met developers at the city’s Zhejiang University,

BEIJING – Apple boss Tim Cook on March 26 praised “the next generation of developers” during a visit to a technology hub in eastern China, as the US tech giant battles to stay relevant in the country’s vast consumer market.

Tim Cook, the CEO of tech giant Apple ($AAPL), praised AI lab DeepSeek by calling its language models “excellent” during his trip to China,