FILE PHOTO: BMW plans to start integrating AI from DeepSeek in its new models in China from later this year, CEO Oliver Zipse said. | Photo Credit: Reuters German automaker BMW plans to start integrating artificial intelligence from Chinese startup DeepSeek in its new models in China from later this year, CEO Oliver Zipse said…
On March 13, OpenAI released a proposal for the U.S. AI Action Plan. The report asserts that while the United States currently holds a leading position in the field of artificial intelligence, the success of China-based DeepSeek indicates that this advantage is not as significant as it appears and is gradually narrowing. The AI Action…
Beijing has launched a new initiative to train young students in artificial intelligence (AI) as part of its long-term strategy to strengthen China’s technological leadership. Starting this academic year, primary and secondary schools in the city will conduct at least eight hours of AI classes annually. Students as young as six will learn to use…
On a bright morning in Prague or Budapest, you could be forgiven for missing the quiet but pervasive shift underway. It is not a political coup or a military confrontation, but something subtler: the steady expansion of China’s artificial intelligence (AI) influence across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). DeepSeek, Alibaba’s Qwen, and other Chinese AI…
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…