Up until the launch of DeepSeek last month, Ernie Bot was widely seen as the closest Chinese rival to ChatGPT
 
							Apple chose Alibaba partly due to the e-commerce giant’s vast troves of personal data on users' shopping and payment habits, which could help train AI models
 
							Experts say China's 'breakthrough' AI app collects excessive amounts of user information, and stores it using outdated security protocols in servers accessible to Beijing
 
							The meme coin — $Trump — was launched with an opening sale price of just 18 cents and went on to hit a peak of $75 per token within two days
 
							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
Nissan did not want to be a Honda subsidiary, according to sources reported by Nikkei; its board is now reportedly reconsidering it's options
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
 
							The lifting of the de minimis loophole will hurt the Chinese and US e-commerce firms but won't kill them, an analyst said
 
							Carmakers of both EVs and Japanese firms like Toyota have had to offer big discounts as they are locked in a bruising price war, while the economy is sluggish
 
							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