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1. DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough could alter China’s ‘national fate’ in US tech war
DeepSeek, extolled by some as the “biggest dark horse” in the open-source large language model (LLM) arena, now has a bull’s eye on its back, as the start-up is being touted as China’s secret weapon in the artificial intelligence (AI) war with the US.
2. China is ‘nanoseconds behind’ US in chips, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says
Allowing US companies like Nvidia to compete in China fits the interests of both Beijing and Washington, according to Jensen Huang, the US chipmaker’s founder and CEO, as Chinese players gear up to be Nvidia-free.
3. China aims to leapfrog the US in robotics. Its latest tactic: robot boot camps
China is going all out to outpace the United States in the race to develop advanced humanoid robots. Its latest strategy: sending its bots to boot camp.
