chinese artificial intelligence

DeepSeek closes gap with ChatGPT, Gemini in AI race with R1 upgrade: Cuts hallucinations and improves reasoning

adminMay 29, 202503 mins

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has introduced an upgraded version of its R1 model, claiming significant improvements in mathematical reasoning, programming, and logical capabilities, while reducing hallucination rates, a common flaw in large language models. The company revealed details of the new model, DeepSeek-R1-0528, on Thursday via the AI platform Hugging Face, stating that its…

Why Xi Jinping is making nice with China’s tech billionaires

adminApril 22, 2025010 mins

China’s Communist Party has a history of purging and then welcoming back senior officials. Deng Xiaoping was purged three times before leading the country out of Maoism in the late 1970s. Some cadres are welcomed back years after their death. Jack Ma, Alibaba’s founder, endured the modern version of a purge in 2020. The initial…

Parmy Olson: The DeepSeek AI revolution has a security problem

adminFebruary 7, 202508 mins

DeepSeek has sent Silicon Valley into a panic by proving you could build powerful artificial intelligence (AI) on a shoestring budget. In some respects, it was too good to be true. Recent testing has shown that DeepSeek’s AI models are more vulnerable to manipulation than those of its more expensive competitors from Silicon Valley. That…

DeepSeek’s big-picture message: Embrace the open-source movement for wider benefits

adminFebruary 6, 202508 mins

DeepSeek’s moment of global glory is a double-edged sword, and it couldn’t have come at a more geopolitically fraught time. The upstart grabbed global attention with its latest models, shocking Silicon Valley and investors with their capabilities and efficiency. But for a Chinese AI company with overseas ambitions, doing the technically impossible may be the…

Silicon Valley’s blind spots have been exposed by China’s DeepSeek

adminJanuary 29, 202508 mins

Did he have a moat? Yes, he answered, according to another CEO who was there. No one else had raised the billions of dollars that he had. That was his moat. This short-sighted approach to doing business, that huge sums of money alone can keep competition at bay, is why giants like Meta Platforms are…

Rahul Jacob: DeepSeek’s big shake-up of AI holds bigger policy lessons for us

adminJanuary 29, 202509 mins

On 21 January, US President Donald Trump appeared with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Softbank’s Masayoshi Son to announce a $500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) project. “This monumental undertaking is a resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential under a new president,” Trump declared. Not to be outdone, Son said this amounted to…

What America’s technology denial and China’s AI success imply for India

adminJanuary 28, 202509 mins

The problem is that even though lawmakers come to this process with a clear sense of what they want to achieve, the outcomes of this approach are often not what they intended. Take the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA), a law designed to ban TikTok in the US. Once the Supreme…