DeepSeek Is Embraced in China by Government Nationwide

Government bodies nationwide have been eager to show they are using DeepSeek’s A.I. technology since the company’s founder met with Xi Jinping, China’s leader.

The New York Times - Mar. 18

How A.I. Chatbots Like ChatGPT and DeepSeek Reason

Companies like OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek offer chatbots designed to take their time with an answer. Here’s how they work.

The New York Times - 2d

How A.I. Chatbots Like ChatGPT and DeepSeek Reason

Companies like OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek offer chatbots designed to take their time with an answer. Here’s how they work.

The New York Times - 2d

How A.I. Chatbots Like ChatGPT and DeepSeek Reason

Companies like OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek offer chatbots designed to take their time with an answer. Here’s how they work.

The New York Times - 2d

Chinese Companies Rush to Put DeepSeek in Everything

From video game developers to a nuclear power plant, companies across China are adopting DeepSeek’s AI models to boost stock prices and flaunt their national pride.

Wired - Mar. 12

DeepSeek AI cranks open the spigots on Chinese venture capital

DeepSeek's artificial intelligence breakthrough is stirring up China's venture capital world after three straight years of decline.

CNBC - Mar. 12

French industrial giant Schneider Electric hails the significance of China’s ‘DeepSeek moment'

China's "DeepSeek moment" is likely to be good news in the global race to develop AI models, according to French power-equipment maker Schneider Electric.

CNBC - Mar. 12

Alibaba’s new open source model QwQ-32B matches DeepSeek-R1 with way smaller compute requirements

While DeepSeek-R1 operates with 671 billion parameters, QwQ-32B achieves comparable performance with a much smaller footprint.

VentureBeat - Mar. 5

Nvidia's Jensen Huang on why DeepSeek's new model will need ‘100 times more computing’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke with CNBC's Jim Cramer about DeepSeek's new AI model.

CNBC - Mar. 20

DeepSeek-V3 now runs at 20 tokens per second on Mac Studio, and that’s a nightmare for OpenAI

DeepSeek's free 685B-parameter AI model runs at 20 tokens/second on Apple's Mac Studio, outperforming Claude Sonnet while using just 200 watts, challenging OpenAI's cloud-dependent business model.

VentureBeat - 4d

China steels itself for Trump turmoil with ‘DeepSeek congress’

Annual session of rubber stamp parliament highlights Beijing’s shifting priorities amid AI breakthroughs and US tariffs

Financial Times - Mar. 13

DeepSeek focuses on research over revenue in contrast to Silicon Valley

Chinese start-up to concentrate resources on building machines with humanlike cognitive capabilities

Financial Times - Mar. 14

DeepSeek scared away some AI funders. But this wealthy backer is ready to spend.

Why government — not business — will see that AI startups get the money they need.

MarketWatch - Mar. 15

Chinese AI start-ups overhaul business models after DeepSeek’s success

The country’s top groups are re-evaluating their strategies as they race to remain competitive

Financial Times - 4d

SimilarWeb data: This obscure AI startup grew 8,658% while OpenAI crawled at 9%

SimilarWeb data reveals dramatic AI market upheaval with Deepseek (8,658% growth) and Lovable (928% growth) dominating.

VentureBeat - Mar. 5

FirstFT: Vladimir Putin pushes maximalist demands in Ukraine talks

Also in today’s newsletter, Tesla warns of exposure to retaliatory tariffs and DeepSeek focuses on research

Financial Times - Mar. 14

New open-source math model Light-R1-32B surpasses equivalent DeepSeek performance with only $1000 in training costs

Companies can freely deploy Light-R1-32B in commercial products, maintaining full control over their innovations.

VentureBeat - Mar. 5

What you need to know about Manus, the new AI agentic system from China hailed as a second ‘DeepSeek moment’

Manus AI is designed as a multi-agent system, meaning it combines several AI models to handle tasks independently.

VentureBeat - Mar. 10

From DeepSeek to job risks: What tech leaders are saying on AI right now

The future of artificial intelligence is dominating discussions at CNBC's CONVERGE LIVE in Singapore.

CNBC - Mar. 13

Baidu delivers new LLMs ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 undercutting DeepSeek, OpenAI on cost — but they’re not open source (yet)

Baidu has also announced plans to integrate ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 into its broader ecosystem, including Baidu Search and the Wenxiaoyan app.

VentureBeat - Mar. 17

Major AI market share shift revealed: DALL-E plummets 80% as Black Forest Labs dominates 2025 data

New data reveals dramatic AI market share shifts in 2025 as Black Forest Labs and DeepSeek challenge OpenAI and Google's dominance.

VentureBeat - Mar. 10

Alibaba launches new version of AI assistant tool as competition heats up

The launch comes as its latest effort to gain an edge amid growing competition in AI application front, further intensified by the emergence of DeepSeek.

CNBC - Mar. 13

The blogger who was right about Nvidia is now panning a $25 billion AI company

Jeffrey Emanuel, known for turning Wall Street’s attention to the risk DeepSeek might pose to Nvidia, warns that CoreWeave’s IPO is way overvalued.

MarketWatch - Mar. 20

Is the chip sector having a meltdown? By this measure, it’s mostly just Nvidia.

Broadcom and Marvell shares have been hit recently. But Nvidia alone is responsible for about three quarters of the chip sector’s lost market cap in the weeks since the DeepSeek news.

MarketWatch - Mar. 10

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