DeepSeek, a prominent Chinese artificial intelligence company, has released DeepSeek-V3.1-Base, an updated version of its large language model. The new model, now available on platforms like Hugging Face, comes with a total of 685 billion parameters and features an expanded context window of 128,000 tokens, a…
Reports have surfaced suggesting that the French AI startup Mistral may have used a “distilled” version of Chinese-developed models, specifically DeepSeek, to train its own large language models. The claims, which emerged from a whistleblower, question Mistral’s public narrative of success through Reinforcement Learning (RL) and…
From hardware to algorithms, and from regulation to values, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a core domain of strategic competition between the United States and China. In early 2025, Chinese startup DeepSeek released an open-source model that quickly gained favor among global developers due to its…
The American tech industry is growing increasingly anxious over China’s strides in open-source artificial intelligence (AI). According to an August 7 report by The Washington Post, Chinese companies dominate the field, with five of the top 15 AI models being open-source and developed by Chinese firms,…
