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Understanding DeepSeek’s impact on US-China relations

What does DeepSeek’s rise mean for the US-China tech rivalry? The Post delves into how DeepSeek is reshaping the competitive landscape and what this means for US-China relations.

Updated: 07 Feb, 2025
Understanding DeepSeek’s impact on US-China relations
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Will rise of Chinese AI firm DeepSeek tilt the balance in US-China tech war?

After the company took tech world by surprise with powerful, low-cost AI model, new questions are raised about US containment strategy.

27 Jan, 2025
A DeepSeek app is shown on a a mobile phone. The Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot has soared to the top of download charts, stunning industry insiders and analysts with its ability to match its US competitors. Photo: AFP
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China’s ability to launch DeepSeek chatbot draws US panel’s scrutiny

Testimony sounds warning about China’s ability to dominate the ‘potentially world-changing technology’ of artificial general intelligence.

07 Feb, 2025
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s hearing comes amid mounting concern among American policymakers about the unexpected success of Chinese AI company DeepSeek. Photo: Zuma Press Wire/dpa
[3]

What will it take for China to produce the next DeepSeek-style disrupter?

China is likely to produce more ‘technological surprises’, but an open innovation ecosystem is critical for gaining AI edge, analysts say.

28 Jan, 2025
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has topped the free download charts in app stores in both China and the US. Photo: AFP
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China’s DeepSeek is redefining AI tech. Here’s why the US must get on board

DeepSeek shows that hi-tech ‘is not all about scale and money’, one analyst says, as another calls China’s innovative march ‘unstoppable’.

29 Jan, 2025
Meteoric arrival of DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) model is seen to highlight the need for US-China cooperation on innovation, despite Washington’s policy to contain Beijing’s hi-tech progress. Photo: Shutterstock
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Is China’s DeepSeek moment a chance to become an ‘open-source nation’?

Beijing should ease excessive regulation and administrative intervention in AI sector to promote more tech innovation, experts say.

03 Feb, 2025
Overregulation has pushed China’s best tech minds overseas, hindered domestic innovation, and widened the country’s tech gap with the US, according to a new article by a Chinese think tank. Photo: Reuters
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DeepSeek’s success gives Chinese firms jolt in quest to leapfrog sanctions

Artificial intelligence start-up’s rise to prominence can motivate China’s tech industry, analysts said, even as US-led curbs continue.

04 Feb, 2025
The success of China’s AI start-up DeepSeek has inspired other domestic firms to strive for tech breakthroughs. Photo: Reuters
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As DeepSeek’s open-source model stuns world, will it push Russia’s tech drive?

Its success also raises the question of how effective US tech curbs on China have been.

04 Feb, 2025
DeepSeek’s code forms the basis of a new AI model unveiled by Russian lender SberBank in November. Photo: AFP
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OpenAI says DeepSeek stole its AI data, but how common is ‘distillation’?

Experts say AI model distillation is likely widespread and hard to detect, but DeepSeek has not admitted to using it on its full models.

30 Jan, 2025
OpenAI says it has evidence that Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek distilled its closed-source models through authorised access. Photo: Reuters
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Is DeepSeek’s AI that efficient? Chinese firm’s computing power in the spotlight

Big spending on GPUs from the hedge fund that spawned DeepSeek has some casting doubt on the company’s true expenditures while acknowledging innovation.

04 Feb, 2025
Questions are being raised about just how much DeepSeek is spending on computing power. Photo: AP
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