China’s DeepSeek Leads AI Innovation, Sparking Global Competition
Chinese AI company DeepSeek is making waves in the global tech scene. Lou Qinjian, a Chinese politician and computer scientist, praised DeepSeek for its open-source approach. He believes it promotes AI technology worldwide, showcasing China’s tech innovation.
Simultaneously occurring, the US is not sitting idle. at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, US Vice President JD Vance outlined the Trump governance’s stance. The US aims to keep its AI technology as the global gold standard. Vance emphasized deregulation to foster AI growth and warned against partnering with authoritarian regimes that might misuse AI.
DeepSeek’s breakthrough came in January with its low-cost AI models. This progress challenges the notion that developing reliable AI requires massive capital and resources. Startups can now compete with tech giants like Google and openai.
DeepSeek’s AI uses reasoning capabilities and reinforcement learning, making it more efficient. However, it raises privacy concerns. As an open-weight model, the exact source code used for training is not disclosed.
The AI race has geopolitical implications. Sberbank,
