Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek claims to have developed an AI assistant with performance comparable to leading Western models like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini but at a fraction of the cost.
Asked about sensitive topics, the bot would begin to answer, then stop and delete its own work. It refused to answer questions like: “Who is Xi Jinping?”
Gao Yifei is a trumpeter in a band led by the famous Chinese singer Zhao Lei. Many of her videos playing the trumpet have emerged on social media platforms.
Silicon Valley and Washington leaders said the app shows China can challenge the U.S. The Nasdaq lost 3 percent and chipmaker Nvidia shed $589 billion in market capitalization.
AAP FactCheck – An outbreak of a common virus in northern China has triggered false claims on social media that it's a new pathogen that could trigger a pandemic. Experts say human metapneumovirus (hMPV) was first described more than 20 years ago and is a common illness.
China AI startup DeepSeek just released its R-1 model that compares favorably with OpenAI's o1 reasoning model. DeepSeek claims to have trained R1 at a fraction of the cost of o1 and Meta's Llama 3.1.
In some ways, DeepSeek was far less censored than most Chinese platforms, offering answers with keywords that would often be quickly scrubbed on domestic social media. Other times, the program eventually censored itself.