Chinese market analysts believe DeepSeek's launch is a 'watershed' moment that shows Beijing can hold its ground amid an intense tech war with rival US
Huawei to make DeepSeek model available on Ascend, while Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent's cloud arms also say they've made its models accessible via their services
"These moves are warnings that China intends to harm US interests if need be, but still give China the option to back down," one analyst said
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
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
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