On April 8, numerous committees within the United States House of Representatives held hearings on AI, examining China’s growing capabilities, the release of DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model, and potential implications for U.S. security and economic interests. These conversations attempted to untangle what is more important for U.S. strategic interests: building the most advanced and capable…
BEIJING, March 25 — China has narrowed the AI development gap with the United States to just three months in some areas, because firms such as DeepSeek have worked out how to use chips and apply algorithms more efficiently, the CEO of Chinese startup 01.AI Lee Kai-fu said. Lee, a prominent figure in the global…
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes On Wednesday, 26 February, the Hong Kong government presented its new budget, an ambitious plan to cut spending, boost the technology sector, and revitalise a slowing economy. Hong Kong’s GDP grew by 2.5% last year, a decrease from 2023’s 3.2%, and is forecasted to grow by a similar amount this…
Following worries about data privacy and national security caused by the proliferation of Chinese-owned apps, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday issued an order banning the apps DeepSeek and RedNote from state government-issued devices. The ban that includes artificial intelligence app DeepSeek and social media platform RedNote also extends to other apps affiliated with the…
Be on the watch for human-AI communication ambiguities when using generative AI and LLMs, especially … [+] in vital circumstances. getty In today’s column, I examine the fraught nature of human-AI communications ambiguities that occur in the daily use of generative AI and large language models (LLMs). Ambiguities in communication can lead to woeful results….
New Delhi: Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek claims to have developed an AI assistant with performance comparable to leading Western models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini but at a fraction of the cost. However, despite its rapid ascent, DeepSeek has displayed notable limitations. Like other Chinese AI models, it remains constrained by government…
(Editor’s Note: This is the next installment of our series, “Tech Policy under Trump 2.0.” Read the first article in the series here). During a Dec. 18 press conference in Mar-a-Lago, President-elect Donald Trump took an unexpected tack, suggesting the United States and China could “work together to solve all of the world’s problems.” With…
Getting generative AI to run based on 1-bit LLMs is exciting and joyous. getty In today’s column, I explore the exciting and rapidly advancing realm of faster and slimmer generative AI that is being devised via the latest advances in so-called 1-bit large language models (LLMs). No worries if you don’t know what those are….
2 By Alexander Jones, International Banker “China and the United States have effectively switched places as the overwhelming leader in research in just two decades.” That’s the brutally honest assessment delivered by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) shortly after publishing its Critical Technology Tracker on August 28—an assessment that highlights just how far…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in a roundtable with the CEOs of American tech companies including Google and Adobe. In the roundtable anchored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in New York, Modi focused on fostering collaborations in cutting-edge fields such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and biotechnology. He also shared details of his…