7 February 2025

DeepSeek’s open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models are injecting fresh momentum into Chinese makers of smart glasses, as the technology enables developers to integrate more advanced capabilities into their products at a lower cost. “DeepSeek’s low-cost, high-price-performance model has fundamentally reshaped the economics of AI deployment,” said Misa Zhu Mingming, founder and chief executive of Hangzhou-based […]

The launch of DeepSeek has unsettled the world’s belief that it “could contain China”, said Deutsche Bank, calling the emergence of the artificial-intelligence (AI) technology the country’s “Sputnik moment”. By characterising the start-up’s achievement as a significant turning point for the country, the bank goes further than Marc Andreessen, the influential Silicon Valley venture capitalist,

China’s ability to launch DeepSeek’s popular chatbot came under scrutiny before a US government advisory panel on Thursday, with one witness stressing the role that American technology played and another cautioning that the country’s ability to “iterate” other breakthroughs in the industry could overcome this factor. Testimony before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission