China’s AI ‘little dragon’, DeepSeek, has returned to the scene after almost a year’s public absence – but its message was far from industry optimism. At the government’s World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, the company’s senior researcher, Chen Deli, gave…
When Chinese state-owned defence giant Norinco unveiled the P60, an autonomous combat support vehicle, in February, the key element was not the armour, but its decision-making system. Capable of autonomous operations at 50 km/h, the vehicle was powered by a…
Chinese technology giant Huawei, in collaboration with Zhejiang University, has developed a new ‘safe’ version of the DeepSeek advanced language model. The project, dubbed DeepSeek-R1-Safe, aims to almost completely eliminate responses to topics deemed politically sensitive by Beijing. This is…
Chinese startup DeepSeek is shedding new light on the economics of the race for supremacy in artificial intelligence. In a publication in the prestigious journal Nature, the company revealed that the cost of training its R1 model, focused on reasoning,…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has had to delay the release of its highly anticipated R2 model. The reason appeared to be technical problems that prevented effective training on Ascend chips from Huawei. The incident is forcing the company to revert…
The rise of Chinese artificial intelligence models in Western markets is increasingly facing a barrier – not technological, but regulatory. The latest example comes from Germany, where the country’s data protection commissioner has demanded that Apple and Google remove the…
When Chinese startup DeepSeek unveiled its R1 language model, many experts rubbed their eyes in amazement. The model rivalled the latest OpenAI and Anthropic designs, and cost significantly less to train. However, success proved difficult to replicate – according to…
Chinese startup DeepSeek has quietly released an update to its R1 inference model, designated R1-0528, on the Hugging Face platform. Although the company has yet to make an official announcement or provide detailed specifications, the new version of the model…