6 February 2025

Alphabet’s Google on Wednesday announced updates to its Gemini family of large language models, including a new product line with competitive pricing to low-cost artificial intelligence models like that of Chinese rival DeepSeek. The tech giant offers several versions of Gemini that vary in price and performance. It already offered a lightweight variant known as

Alibaba Group Holding is shoring up its artificial intelligence (AI) team for consumer applications with the recent hire of Steven Hoi Chu-hong, an expert in machine learning and computer vision technologies who previously served as managing director of Salesforce Research Asia. Based in Singapore, Hoi last month was named a vice-president at Alibaba, owner of

DeepSeek has temporarily stopped developers from topping up their accounts to access the Chinese start-up’s artificial intelligence (AI) models, a sign of the overwhelming popularity of its products. The company on Thursday disabled the top-up button on its platform website. A notice attributed the change to “server resource constraints”, but added that “existing balances can

The chatbot app from artificial intelligence (AI) sensation DeepSeek has overtaken Doubao, the equivalent product from TikTok parent ByteDance, as China’s most popular AI app, reflecting the continuing widespread interest in the Hangzhou-based start-up. The company’s namesake DeepSeek AI assistant, offered as a free app to consumers, had an average of 22.2 million daily active