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What does rise of AI firm DeepSeek mean for US-China tech war, and the race for talent?

The rise of little-known Chinese tech start-up DeepSeek has exposed weaknesses in America’s “ small yard, high fence ” strategy to contain China’s technological progress, according to experts.

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


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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

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng (right) was invited to meet Chinese Premier Li Qiang last week. Photo: CCTV

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SenseTime plans to spin off healthcare platform in effort to capitalise on advanced LLMs

Hong Kong-listed SenseTime is set to spin off its healthcare platform to facilitate growth, capitalising on the rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) that are transforming artificial intelligence (AI) in the medical field.

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


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OpenAI faces new copyright case, from global book publishers in India - Reuters

OpenAI faces new copyright case, from global book publishers in India Reuters

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OpenAI unveils tool to automate web tasks as AI agents take center-stage - Reuters

OpenAI unveils tool to automate web tasks as AI agents take center-stage Reuters

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Tencent ramps up global AI efforts with roll-out of advanced Hunyuan 3D-generation system

Tencent Holdings’ latest AI-powered system reflects the internet giant’s efforts to advance 3D-content production. Photo: Tencent

The open-source Hunyuan3D 2.0, built on Tencent’s own large language model (LLM), is used to generate high-resolution, textured 3D assets, according to a statement by the Shenzhen -based company on Tuesday.

The advanced system includes two foundation components: a shape-generation model called Hunyuan3D-DiT and

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China’s most popular AI app gets facelift with ByteDance’s Doubao 1.5

The headquarters of ByteDance seen in Beijing on September 16, 2020. Photo: AFP

TikTok parent ByteDance has launched an updated version of Doubao, China’s most popular consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) app, as the tech giant accelerates AI development despite US export restrictions on advanced chips.

The Beijing-based company introduced its closed-source multimodal model Doubao 1.5 Pro on Wednesday, emphasising a “resource-efficient” training approach

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Alibaba Cloud rolls out expanded suite of AI models, development tools in overseas push

Alibaba Cloud aims to work with 100 ecosystem partners in 2025 to develop and provide cutting-edge artificial intelligence and cloud-computing solutions for businesses worldwide. Photo: Shutterstock

At its annual developer summit in Indonesia on Tuesday, Hangzhou -based Alibaba Cloud said the latest products under its Tongyi Qianwen family of LLMs, such as the Qwen 2.5 series, as well as multimodal AI models – including the Qwen-VL series and visual generation-focused Tongyi Wanxiang – are now accessible to global developers via application programming interfaces (APIs) on its generative AI (GenAI) development platform, Model Studio. Alibaba owns
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Beijing meeting puts spotlight on China’s new face of AI, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng

Chinese Premier Li Qiang, left, listens to DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng at a meeting in Beijing on January 20, 2025. Photo: CCTV

Liang Wenfeng , 40, took part in the meeting where a select group of industry experts – in the fields of technology, education, science, culture, health and sports – offered Li their opinions and suggestions for a draft government work report, according to official news agency Xinhua.
LLM refers to the technology underpinning generative AI services such as ChatGPT. Open
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OpenAI finalizes 'o3 mini' reasoning AI model version, to launch it soon - Reuters

OpenAI finalizes 'o3 mini' reasoning AI model version, to launch it soon Reuters