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DeepSeek

(深度求索)

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DeepSeek
深度求索
DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded by Liang Wengfeng. Its low-cost AI model was developed with significantly fewer computing resources than those of bigger US tech firms like OpenAI and Meta.
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China accuses ‘AI tigers’ Zhipu, Moonshot of collecting excessive data

Zhipu’s ChatGLM and Moonshot’s Kimi have a combined total of nearly 35 million monthly active users.

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Alibaba and DeepSeek’s home province aims to become AI hub through big spending

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Hong Kong healthcare investor looks for biotech’s ‘DeepSeek moment’ in China

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Senior US Democrat slams ‘horrible’ reversal of AI rule as helping China

Trump administration’s move to rescind Biden-era prohibitions said to enable Saudi Arabia, UAE to make advanced chips ‘available’ to Beijing.

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DeepSeek offers new details on using 2,048 Nvidia chips to train its V3 model

In a paper co-authored by founder Liang Wenfeng, the start-up attributes its success to a hardware-software co-design approach.

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AI platform finds waning usage of DeepSeek as Kuaishou surges in video

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Zhipu AI’s plan reflects intensifying efforts by both Chinese and US companies to widen the global adoption of their AI systems.

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Dr DeepSeek? Hospital adoption is ‘too fast’, Chinese researchers warn

A paper warning of ‘substantial clinical risk’ from an overreliance on AI models makes a team of medical researchers a rare voice of caution.

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Alibaba pushes global adoption of Qwen3 AI models via more developer platforms

The Qwen3 family of AI models can now be deployed via large language model platforms Ollama, LM Studio, SGLang and vLLM.

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China’s StepFun aims to stand out in AI race with multimodal models

Players in China’s AI industry are struggling to differentiate their products after DeepSeek’s success triggered a surge in reasoning models.

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New Alibaba method slashes costs of training AI for search by 88%

The Chinese tech giant has introduced a way to train AI models without constantly connecting to external search engines.

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It would be a mistake to neglect the agency of states, multinational organisations and powerful firms not fully aligned with either side.

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Alibaba’s Quark, China’s most popular AI app, launches ‘deep search’

The upgrade combines the reasoning capabilities of AI models with online search to answer complex user queries.

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DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng ‘takes no short cuts’, Li Auto CEO says

That assessment reflects how Liang, an ‘extremely self-disciplined person’, led DeepSeek to become a true innovator in AI.

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Nvidia modifies H20 chip for China to overcome US export controls: sources

Chinese customers have been notified by Nvidia that it aims to release the downgraded version of the H20 chip in July, sources say.

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DeepSeek’s AI system gets faster with Tencent’s open-source boost

The leading Chinese AI start-up has adopted an open-source technical solution from Tencent, leading to a ‘huge speed boost’.

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Alibaba’s Qwen3 unseats DeepSeek’s R1 as world’s top-ranked open-source AI model

Qwen3 surpassed R1 in LiveBench tests that gauge open-source AI models’ capabilities including coding, maths and data analysis.

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DeepSeek tech is ‘overblown’ and not a threat, Anthropic co-founder says

Jack Clark, a former journalist turned AI policy expert, said DeepSeek ‘might become a closer competitor’ if it had access to more computing resources.

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