China's DeepSeek releases AI model upgrade, intensifies rivalry with OpenAI

China’s technological innovations strain global competition to the limit. China’s planetary gravitation is leaking into societies that still regard the eastern country as a distant superpower and that has an indirect impact on its reality. DeepSeek is an urgent and intense exhortation to understand the multiple scenarios that have created it. At this point, it is clear that it is not an exceptional, capricious or singular fact, but an expression…

An Old Approach to AI Gains New Attention After DeepSeek

DeepSeek’s success has sparked renewed interest in an AI technique called mixture of experts. But first...

Why going open-source is crucial to ensure competition in AI

DeepSeek has made open-source cool again. The Chinese startup’s decision to use open-source frameworks to achieve sophisticated reasoning has shaken up the AI ecosystem: Since then, Baidu has made its ERNIE model open-source, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said he thinks his non-open source company may be on the “wrong side of history.” There are now two distinct paradigms in the AI sector: the closed ecosystems promoted by giants like OpenAI a…

J&T Express unit to utilise DeepSeek AI

Leading logistics service provider J&T Express Thailand plans to utilise DeepSeek's artificial intelligence (AI) model to increase its operating efficiency, while expanding its retail partner network to broaden its customer reach.

DeepSeek founder three times richer than OpenAI's Altman

Cici Cao Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek's founder Liang Wenfeng has entered the Hurun Global Rich List with a fortune of 33 billion yuan (HK$35.36 billion). DeepSeek stunned the tech industry and Wall Street in January with a new AI model it claimed to have developed at a fraction...

Seoul official says no timeframe set for resumption of DeepSeek service

Korea has yet to decide on the timeframe for the resumption of the local service of China's DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) after its suspension last month due to concerns over its data management, a senior Seoul official said Thursday.