On January 20, the release of China’s newest AI model, DeepSeek R1, sent the markets and tech world into a spiral. This was primarily because its reasoning model performs on par with leading U.S. firm OpenAI’s similar o1 model, but was trained at a fraction of the cost. Influential tech investor Marc Andreessen called the…
Reports of China’s development of new large language models (LLMs) shocked the U.S. technology sector, raising questions over how the U.S. can avoid ceding ground to a strategic competitor in the critical field of artificial intelligence (AI). While much attention has been given to how many and what type of semiconductors DeepSeek and other AI…
Forget TikTok—DeepSeek is the real deal. VCG via Getty Images Timing really is everything. A week on from TikTok’s short-lived ban over fears of Chinese harvesting U.S. data, despite consistent denials from the platform and its parent that it’s doing anything of the sort, here comes another app that admits to doing exactly that. And…
In January 2025, China’s DeepSeek AI lab introduced its new AI model, DeepSeek-V3, shaking up the global tech scene. This development has raised concerns among U.S. tech giants, as it threatens the U.S.’s leading position in artificial intelligence. For years, companies in the US, like OpenAI, Meta, and Google, have been at the forefront of…
A Chinese envoy took a veiled swipe during a UN session on technology at the US strategy of hi-tech restrictions, warning it could lead the world into an “abyss of confrontation”. Fu Cong, Beijing’s permanent representative at the United Nations, accused “individual countries” on Monday of attempting to “consolidate their own technology monopoly and contain…
Although NVIDIA’s H20 GPUs remain popular in China, the government’s subtle guidance to move towards local alternatives reflects its broader strategy to reduce dependence on foreign technology read more China is pushing its tech companies to prioritise domestically produced artificial intelligence (AI) chips over those from foreign suppliers like NVIDIA and AMD, in an effort…
China is aggressively advancing its artificial intelligence (AI) research and production, aiming to achieve greater autonomy in the China-U.S. tech competition through local AI chip design. This ambition makes Chinese AI chip firms prime targets for U.S. technology sanctions. However, China faces a significant challenge: its leading wafer manufacturer, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), can…