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Trump's AI ambition, China's DeepSeek overshadow AI summit in Paris

The geopolitics of artificial intelligence will be in focus at a major summit in France where world leaders, executives and experts will hammer out pledges on guiding the development of the rapidly advancing technology. It's the latest in a series of global dialogues around AI governance, but one that comes at a fresh inflection point as China's buzzy and budget-friendly DeepSeek chatbot shakes up the industry. US Vice President JD Vance making his first trip abroad since taking office will attend the Paris AI Action Summit starting Feb 10, while China's President Xi Jinping will be sending his special envoy, signalling high stakes for the meeting. Here's a breakdown: Summit basics Heads of state and top government officials, tech bosses and researchers are gathering in Paris for the two-day summit cohosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The event aims to address how to harness artificial intelligence's potential so that it benefits

South Korea temporarily bans DeepSeek over security concerns: Reports

Last month, Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers called on Australians to be cautious when using the Chinese AI model while U.S. officials are also looking at DeepSeek's national security implications

DeepSeek's AI boom: How a GenZ hiring bet overtook ChatGPT in the US

DeepSeek's CEO Liang Wenfeng rejects traditional hiring norms, recruiting Gen Z talent and book lovers to build a $1 billion AI startup that outpaced OpenAI in the US

Chinese chip makers, cloud providers rush to embrace homegrown DeepSeek

The news that Huawei had integrated DeepSeek's models with its Ascend chips marked a watershed moment

Finance ministry asks employees to avoid AI tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek

Countries like Australia and Italy have placed similar restrictions on the use of DeepSeek, citing data security risks

Australia bans China's DeepSeek from government tech over security

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said in a statement that all DeepSeek products, applications and services would be removed from government systems on national security concerns

OpenAI adds image upload, voice message support to WhatsApp chatbot

Amid all the buzz around its CEO Sam Altman's visit to India, OpenAI on Tuesday announced updates around accessing and interacting with ChatGPT via WhatsApp, including a new feature that would allow users to talk to ChatGPT using voice messages on the popular messaging platform and get responses from the AI chatbot in text form. This follows OpenAI's announcement in December that users can talk to ChatGPT by sending a WhatsApp message to '1-800-CHATGPT'. Put simply, this provided another way to access and use ChatGPT, in addition to app download, or users simply accessing it through a browser. OpenAI has now rolled out a few updates to 1-800-CHATGPT, expanding ways to access and interact with ChatGPT in WhatsApp. According to OpenAI, users can now upload images just like they can in ChatGPT directly, and also talk to ChatGPT on WhatsApp using voice messages, and ChatGPT, in turn, will respond in text. These updates are now rolled out to all users including in India - one of the ...

Meet 'Deep Research', OpenAI's new tool that does the googling for you

OpenAI's 'Deep Research' can search the web, find information, and create clear reports in minutes, making research faster and easier for people in different fields

A challenging road ahead for India's DeepSeek moment in AI development

Even though DeepSeek has shown how to build a low-cost foundational AI model, India still has many hurdles to cross

US Congress blocks DeepSeek AI over security concerns; Italy launches probe

US Congress bans Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek over security risks, citing malware threats. Italy follows suit, blocking access and launching a probe into its data practices

India leads the world in DeepSeek AI app downloads, setting records

The Indian government looks to host Chinese AI model on domestic servers to enhance data security and ensure compliance with Indian regulations

Trump, Nvidia CEO discuss DeepSeek, AI chip exports during meeting at WH

Trump did not provide details of the meeting but called Huang a gentleman

OpenAI's Sam Altman heads for another world tour as AI race tightens

Bloomberg reported this week that OpenAI is in talks to raise funds at a valuation of as much as $300 billion in a new SoftBank-led funding round

Ola Krutrim, AceCloud to host DeepSeek's AI models on Indian servers

Indian cloud service providers Ola Krutrim and AceCloud have started offering services of Chinese artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek in the country. AceCloud was the first to announce hosting of DeepSeek. AceCloud said that it will offer DeepSeek AI models to businesses with claims that the data residency will remain in India. Krutrim claimed to be the first Indian AI company to deploy DeepSeek's AI models on domestic servers, eliminating data privacy and security concerns, at lowest ever prices. Krutrim said that it is hosting DeepSeek's AI models on Krutrim cloud. "With this, Krutrim becomes the first Indian AI company to deploy DeepSeek's AI models on domestic servers, eliminating data privacy and security concerns, at lowest ever prices," the company said in a statement. Kriutrim said that it will at present host five state-of-the-art DeepSeek AI models ranging from 8 billion to 70 billion parameters, at introductory prices ranging from Rs 10 to Rs 60 per million token

Indian firm AceCloud to offer DeepSeek GenAI with data residency claims

Indigenous cloud service provider AceCloud will offer Chinese artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek-based technology models to businesses with claims that the data residency will remain in India, the company said on Friday. AceCloud offerings include over six DeepSeek models. "AceCloud today announced the availability of DeepSeek GenAI models on dedicated and shared environments on its Cloud Platform. AceCloud is the first Indian sovereign cloud provider to offer DeepSeek GenAI models at scale on its cloud platform to cater to businesses' evolving requirements while ensuring that the data residency never exits India in line with the country's data protection requirements," the company said in a statement. With this, AceCloud has become the first Indian sovereign cloud provider to offer DeepSeek GenAI models. Chinese company DeepSeek made headlines after its AI model R1 overtook ChatGPT as the top-ranked free app on Apple's App Store, challenging the AI dominance concentrated so

US probably looking into whether DeepSeek used restricted AI chips

In the US, DeepSeek's accomplishments sparked accusations that it had improperly accessed technology from OpenAI and other leaders, though the allegations remain unproved