In 2023, smartphones-to-silicon conglomerate Huawei quietly released its flagship Mate 60 Pro handset. The launch, while muted, was worth celebrating in the People’s Republic: the device featured a made-in-China chip that had previously seemed out of reach amid crippling U.

A Chinese startup called DeepSeek unveiled a new AI system that could match the capabilities of cutting-edge chatbots.

On the opening day of the World Economic Forum 2025 Annual Meeting, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released its latest open-source model DeepSeek-R1, which has achieved an important technological breakthrough – using pure deep learning methods to allow AI to spontaneously emerge with reasoning capabilities.

U.S. export controls on advanced semiconductors were intended to slow China's AI progress, but they may have inadvertently spurred innovation.

Can the $500B Stargate Project secure U.S. AI dominance? This is a 21st-century moonshot the U.S. cannot afford to miss.

In addition to shocking researchers with its performance, the Chinese startup’s rapid progress has raised questions about the effectiveness of A.I. chip export controls intended to curb China’s access to the advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) underpinning A.

Despite the American government’s efforts to hold back China’s AI industry, two Chinese firms had reduced their American counterparts’ technological lead to a matter of weeks. It is not just with reasoning models that Chinese firms are in the vanguard: in December DeepSeek published a new large language model ( LLM ),

The US is playing defense while China plays offense—and the longer America waits to adjust, the greater the risk it will lose its advantage. AI is not just about who builds the most powerful chips; it’s about who controls the global AI ecosystem. This is a race America must win.

China is expected to step up digital infrastructure development to drive its artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions, according to analysts, after the Trump administration unveiled the US$500 billion Stargate Project to further advance the United States' lead in the vital technology.

The founder of artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek, touted as 2025's "biggest dark horse" in the open-source large language model (LLM) arena, emerged as the industry's new face in China at a symposium hosted by Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Monday.

When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene.