Government policies, generous funding and a pipeline of AI graduates have helped Chinese firms create advanced LLMs.

Chinese bloggers, state media and local citizens have welcomed DeepSeek's global success with pride and glee, with some saying the homegrown AI startup's meteoric rise is a sign China is beating back Washington's attempts to contain the country's tech industry.

Luo Fuli, a prominent member of the team which developed DeepSeek AI, is being hailed as an 'AI prodigy' in China, and regarded one of the engineers responsible for the development of the groundbreaking AI model.

From Beijing to Havana, the holiday — known as the Spring Festival in China, Tet in Vietnam and Seollal in Korea — is a major festival celebrated in many countries. Wednesday marked the start of the Year of the Snake, one of 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac.

A cyber-threat report from Google is shedding light on how foreign actors are leveraging generative AI to boost their hacking prowess.

Asked about sensitive topics, the bot would begin to answer, then stop and delete its own work. It refused to answer questions like: “Who is Xi Jinping?”

U.S. companies were spooked when the Chinese startup released models said to match or outperform leading American ones at a fraction of the cost.

China's DeepSeek, a ChatGPT competitor reportedly built for just $6 million, has sent shockwaves and challenged assumptions about AI development costs.

If we choke off the growth of the U.S. wind industry while electricity demand is soaring, we may well have to recommission mothballed coal plants.

People across China have taken to social media to hail the success of its homegrown tech startup DeepSeek and its founder, after the company unveiled its newest artificial intelligence model, sending shock waves through Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

The rise in popularity of a high-performing and cheaply built Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model has shaken the confidence of investors, while raising larger questions about the future of

Some AI researchers hailed DeepSeek’s R1 as a breakthrough on the same level as DeepMind’s AlphaZero, a 2017 model that became superhuman at the board games Chess and Go by purely playing against itself and improving, rather than observing any human games.