How China’s new AI model DeepSeek is threatening U.S. dominance

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  Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek

  DeepSeek has a free website and mobile app even for U.S. users with an R1-powered chatbot interface similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
  
  VentureBeat - 16h
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  No retraining needed: Sakana’s new AI model changes how machines learn

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  VentureBeat - 22h

• Scale AI CEO says China has quickly caught the U.S. with the DeepSeek open-source model

  Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, said Thursday that the AI race between the U.S. and China is an "AI war."
  
  CNBC - 1d

• How has China reacted to the new Trump administration?

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  CBS News - 2d

• Why U.S. tech companies struggle to replicate China's WeChat 'super app' model

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  CNBC - 3d

• New US Rule Aims to Block China’s Access to AI Chips and Models by Restricting the World

  The US government has announced a radical plan to control exports of cutting-edge AI technology to most nations.
  
  Wired - Jan. 13

• U.S. Targets China With New AI Curbs, Overriding Nvidia's Objections

  The U.S. is imposing some of its strongest measures yet to limit Chinese advances in AI, aiming to block backdoors in other countries that Beijing could use to access technology.
  
  The Wall Street Journal - Jan. 13
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  Nvidia’s AI agent play is here with new models, orchestration blueprints

  Nvidia enters the AI agent space with a family of language models for agentic instruction and orchestrarion frameworks it calls Blueprints.
  
  VentureBeat - Jan. 7
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  Putin orders Russia's top bank to team up with China in AI push to challenge Western tech dominance

  Yahoo News - Jan. 6

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