Ant Group leverages domestic semiconductors to develop AI models, reducing costs and challenging Nvidia's dominance amid US-China tech tensions
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has started using the recently released Chinese AI tool 'DeepSeek' for non-combat support functions, especially in military hospitals, to assist the doctors in devising treatment plans besides other civilian areas, media reports said. DeepSeek's open-source large language models (LLMs) are being used in PLA hospitals, People's Armed Police (PAP), and national defence mobilisation organs, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported on Sunday. Earlier this month, the general hospital of the PLA Central Theatre Command announced that it had authorised embedded deployment of DeepSeek's R1-70B LLM, saying it could provide treatment plan suggestions to support doctors, according to the Post. The hospital also emphasised patient privacy and data security, noting that all data was stored and processed on local servers. Similar deployments have been seen in other PLA hospitals nationwide, including the elite PLA General Hospital in Beijing, a
US officials and members of Congress have expressed concerns about the threat of DeepSeek to data privacy and sensitive government information
Baidu's reasoning model excels in areas like daily dialogs, complex calculations and logical deduction, it said in a statement
Google has claimed that its latest open model for developers, Gemma 3, has outperformed Llama-405B, DeepSeek-V3 and o3-mini models on the benchmarking platform LMArena
Nilekani highlighted the need for high-quality datasets, especially in Indian languages, to support AI growth in India
Manus is an advanced AI agent designed to think, plan, and execute real-world tasks on its own. It can create websites, plan trips, analyse stocks, and much more-just from a single user prompt
Distilled Deepseek R1 models will be available through Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft's platform that allows developers to build, manage, and deploy AI applications
Australia's center-left Labour government became one of the first countries in the world to ban DeepSeek from official devices
In the near-term, however, DeepSeek's AI breakthrough and this month's rare meeting between President Xi and tech business leaders have boosted investor sentiment
DeepSeek is now global force. But it's just one player in China's booming AI industry
Speaking at BS Manthan, Wood said he remains structurally bullish on Indian equities from a long-term perspective; but cautious in the short-term given the quantum of FII outflows and valuation woes.
DeepSeek's low-cost AI models triggered a major sell-off in global equity markets last month, as investors worried that its arrival could threaten current AI market leaders
The company says it hopes the new model will produce better coding and be able to reason in languages beyond English
The release of the model comes as competition intensifies in China's AI market, following DeepSeek's launch of its latest open-source models last month
The bench, also consisting of Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, had on February 12 said that AI tools are dangerous, irrespective of whether they are in Chinese or American hands
Surge in orders underlines Nvidia's dominance of the market and could help alleviate concerns that DeepSeek might cause a slide in AI chip demand
Claims that DeepSeek's AI models rival its Western counterparts at a fraction of the cost has led some investors to ask if Nvidia's cutting-edge chips are essential for gaining an edge in AI race
On Sunday, the South Korean government temporarily halted new downloads of DeepSeek due to concerns over its data collection practices
Integration of the DeepSeek-R1 model into TigerGPT follows DeepSeek's meteoric rise which stunned Silicon Valley and triggered a rally in Chinese tech shares on bets of an AI revolution