DeepSeek, a new Chinese chatbot, alarmed American political circles this week. Now, Chinese dissident artists like Ai Weiwei are crying foul.

The AI’s responses to queries related to dissident artists and artistic freedom were terse and biased in favor of the Chinese government.

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

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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.

Led by major retrospectives of Ai Weiwei, Wayne Thiebaud, Ruth Asawa, Rashid Johnson and more, these shows illuminate new ways to appreciate top artists, past and present.

The 40-year-old founder of China's DeepSeek, an AI startup that has startled markets with its capacity to compete with industry leaders like OpenAI, kept a low profile as he built up a hedge fund that now manages a reported $8 billion in assets.

DeepSeek, a startup company based in Hongzhou China, released its newest artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek R1. Within days, the chatbot became the most-downloaded app in Apple’s app store.

Open-source model The apparent advance in Chinese AI capabilities comes after years of efforts by the U.S. government to restrict China’s access to advanced semiconductors and the equipment used ...

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI-chatbot app which launched last week ... itself when it comes to questions about subjects banned in China. Sometimes it begins a response, which then disappears from ...

There’s been an escalation in the generative AI large language model “wars” as Alibaba Qwen 2.5 launched Wednesday. This latest AI salvo from China-based Alibaba is directly aimed at its in-country rival DeepSeek, which launched its own AI--DeepSeek-V3--in December 2024 and its R1 version in mid-January.

Previously little-known Chinese startup DeepSeek has dominated headlines and app charts in recent days thanks to its new AI chatbot, which sparked a global tech sell-off that wiped billions off Silicon Valley’s biggest companies and shattered assumptions of America’s dominance of the tech race.