Chinese startup DeepSeek released a new artificial intelligence model with “drastically reduced” costs Friday, more than a year after it stunned the world with a low-cost reasoning model that matched the capabilities of US rivals. China’s DeepSeek says releases long-awaited new AI model (AFP/Representative) The AI race has intensified the rivalry between China and the…
ByteDance’s Doubao AI chatbot (Source: Shutterstock) ByteDance’s AI chatbot Doubao drew more than 100 million daily active users (DAU) during China’s Lunar New Year holiday, emerging as the clear winner in a fierce user-acquisition battle among the country’s biggest tech firms, according to private survey data. Doubao surpassed 100 million DAUs on February 16, roughly…
In an intriguing viewpoint, Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, points out that China’s advancements in AI technology may be only a few months behind Western developments, challenging the prevailing notions in the US. While Chinese companies rapidly close the gap, Hassabis wonders if they can innovate groundbreaking technologies like the transformer architecture. Google DeepMind…
Witnesses and lawmakers at a foreign affairs hearing blasted the Trump administration’s approval for the sale of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China and called for it to reverse the decision, as the White House’s top technology adviser defended the move in the administration’s first public testimony discussing the latest export control measures. Allowing China…
“The Big Short“ investor Michael Burry has a China warning for the US. Burry, one of the most influential Wall Street investors, has warned that America’s reliance on power-hungry Nvidia chips will hand China victory in the artificial intelligence (AI) race. In a recent post shared on the microblogging site X (formerly Twitter), he pointed…
https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HPCNB_20251215.mp3 Warmest December greetings! AI technology and its correlated impacts splashed around the world last week, here’s a fast (10:52) review of new developments, including: – Nvidia H200 exports to China – H20, H200 and Chinese AI chips: how do they stack up? – Few fast GPUs vs. many slow GPUs – China’s power…
The global AI race has just turned up the heat, and yet again, China is making the move. A new challenger has entered the arena, Moonshot’s Kimi K2 Thinking, a model so advanced that its creators say it’s outsmarted OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 on several high-profile benchmarks. Yes, the same GPT-5 that…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has clarified his previous remarks that China will win the AI race with the US trailing behind. A Financial Times report this week claimed Huang said, “China is going to win the AI race.” He has now denied the statement, saying “That’s not what I said”, adding “What I said was…
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, urged American artificial intelligence (AI) leaders to face the growing competition posed by China’s advances in the sector. Schmidt said the US had a headway, but could lose its edge as Beijing stresses on practical applications and open-source development. “They (China) are not pursuing crazy AGI (artificial general intelligence)…
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently warned that the US could lose AI race to China. In an All In Podcast interview with venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya and David Sacks, Eric Schmidt said that he believed both countries were competing on equal footing, but China is “really doing something more different” than US. “They’re very focused…