Inside China's buzzing AI scene year after DeepSeek shock

Inside China's buzzing AI scene year after DeepSeek shock

Beijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2026 Before DeepSeek shook up the tech world and put Chinese artificial intelligence on the map, Wu Chenglin's own startup had nearly folded three times - but in the past year it has raised $30 million. The January 2025 release of a low-cost generative AI model from DeepSeek that performed at a similar level to ChatGPT and other top American chatbots upended assumptions of US dominance in the se

Foreign Firms Boost AI-Powered Investment Strategies for China

Beijing - In the past, foreign institutions investing in China relied on experienced "China hands" familiar with the country's economic policies and market dynamics, but the industry is now turning to new solutions. People learn about AI model DeepSeek at a fair themed on AI technologies in Hangzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province, May 4, 2025. (Photo/Xinhua) Several international asset management firms have started integrating AI into the…

Scientists Flock To DeepSeek: How They’re Using The Blockbuster AI Model

Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Scientists are flocking to DeepSeek-R1, a cheap and powerful artificial intelligence (AI) ‘reasoning’ model that sent the US stock market spiralling after it was released by a Chinese firm last week. Repeated tests suggest that DeepSeek-R1’s ability to solve mathematics and science problems matches that of the o1 model, released in September by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, whose reasoning models are c…