Social media accounts run by Chinese state media, plus embassies highlighted DeepSeek's 'breakthrough' prior to the stock crash on Monday and push Beijing's narrative on surpassing the US in critical areas of competition, report says

"Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms ... almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B," Alibaba's cloud unit claimed on Wednesday

US executives say limiting the 'distillation' process from open-source models, in which one AI system learns from another, may be difficult to stop

The investment will be made by the Singapore unit of TikTok's parent Bytedance and the data centre will support companies affiliated with the popular short-video site

PM says: “We will urgently look at whether we need to make more cooperative plans and future assistance programmes for the industrial sector."

Microsoft's security researchers observed that "individuals they believed to be connected to DeepSeek" were involved in an unauthorized data transfer several months ago

Meta has reportedly established four "war rooms" with engineers to assess the AI model developed by Chinese startup DeepSeek, insiders have alleged

Shares of Nvidia plunged by 17% on Monday, wiping nearly $600 billion from the chipmaker's market value, a record one-day loss for any company.

Little-known China startup allegedly spent $5.5 million, and used sub-optimal Nvidia chips, on an AI model that rates with the best created by US tech giants; this caused Nvidia and other tech shares to sink

Musk is a rival of OpenAI's Sam Altman and is in an ongoing lawsuit with OpenAI. He alleges the ChatGPT-maker put profits and commercial interests ahead of the public good

Tech giant, which owns TikTok, but may soon be permitted its sell its US arm, will spend half of that amount abroad on AI-related infrastructure, such as data centres and networking equipment, sources say

Trump announced the deal with OpenAI's Sam Altman, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle founder Larry Ellison, saying it is the "largest AI infrastructure project in history"