What does rise of AI firm DeepSeek mean for US-China tech war, and the race for talent?
The company’s success has also signalled an intensifying competition between the US and China to win over the brightest AI minds, they said, while noting that China may still have a long way to go to become a leading global AI player.
This week, DeepSeek, a research lab based in Hangzhou, topped the
Chinese AI disrupter DeepSeek claims top spot in US App Store, dethroning ChatGPT
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek’s chatbot app has dethroned OpenAI’s ChatGPT to claim the top spot on the US iOS App Store, a development that could potentially change the AI landscape due to its open-sourced approach.
DeepSeek’s namesake AI chatbot, which was released in the US App Store on January 10 and is free to use, skyrocketed in popularity in the US after the Chinese firm’s subsequent launch of its R1 open-source reasoning model.
The release

SenseTime plans to spin off healthcare platform in effort to capitalise on advanced LLMs
The company’s AI-enabled smart hospital solution covers diagnostic and treatment help, AI patient service, as well as AI medical and hospital group services, according to Professor Li Hongsheng, the chief scientist for medical foundation models at SenseTime Healthcare.
The solution integrates AI algorithms with advanced image post-processing
Tencent ramps up global AI efforts with roll-out of advanced Hunyuan 3D-generation system

The advanced system includes two foundation components: a shape-generation model called Hunyuan3D-DiT and
China’s most popular AI app gets facelift with ByteDance’s Doubao 1.5

The Beijing-based company introduced its closed-source multimodal model Doubao 1.5 Pro on Wednesday, emphasising a “resource-efficient” training approach
Alibaba Cloud rolls out expanded suite of AI models, development tools in overseas push

Beijing meeting puts spotlight on China’s new face of AI, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng
