Open Questions | Jeffrey Ding on why diffusion, not innovation, is the secret to victory in the AI race
Jeffrey Ding is an assistant professor of political science at George Washington University. He is the author of…
China’s tech self-sufficiency powers stock boom and helps it shake off economic malaise
Nearly a year after DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough rattled global markets, mainland China is entering 2026 with a fresh…
DeepSeek stays mum on next AI model release as technical papers show frontier innovation
Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek continues to keep the world guessing on when its next major release –…
DeepSeek to customise namesake chatbot for Italian users following probe
Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has agreed to launch the first country-specific version of its namesake chatbot, while…
DeepSeek-V3.2 Outperforms GPT-5 on Reasoning Tasks
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3.2, a family of open-source reasoning and agentic AI models. The high compute version, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, performs…
Factbox-Governments, regulators increase scrutiny of DeepSeek
Jan 6 (Reuters) – Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which said in January it had developed an AI model…
Tech war: China takes confident strides to develop more AI innovation in 2026
That release was a fitting reminder to the world, especially during the peak of the Christmas holiday season,…
‘Rational optimist’: sci-fi writer Liu Cixin on why he’ll be happy if AI surpasses humans
Liu Cixin is the most influential contemporary science fiction writer in China. He is best known for his…
China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after initial ChatGPT shock
Chinese government authorities sent urgent requests to various experts, including professors from Tsinghua University, to provide briefings on…
Role reversal: Meta adopts Qwen as Chinese AI becomes industry foundation
When US tech giant Meta Platforms released its flagship Llama family of artificial intelligence models in February 2023,…
DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng makes the cut in top 10 ‘people who shaped science in 2025’
The Nature’s 10 profile of Liang recognised the disruption caused in January by the release of DeepSeek-R1, a…
DeepseekMath-V2 is Deepseek’s latest attempt to pop the US AI bubble
Summary Chinese startup Deepseek reports its new DeepseekMath-V2 model has reached gold medal status at the Math Olympiad,…