DeepSeek’s success challenges assumptions about Chinese tech companies – and the US-China competition
- Written by Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney
The release of the new DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model has shocked the tech world.
Launched on January 20 with little fanfare, the Chinese AI model was reportedly developed at only a fraction of the cost of OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and over a much shorter period of time. One Chinese commentator has called its release a “Pearl...
