Firecrackers, parades and prayers marked the Lunar New Year as millions around Asia and farther afield celebrated

A cyber-threat report from Google is shedding light on how foreign actors are leveraging generative AI to boost their hacking prowess.

Asked about sensitive topics, the bot would begin to answer, then stop and delete its own work. It refused to answer questions like: “Who is Xi Jinping?”

Some AI researchers hailed DeepSeek’s R1 as a breakthrough on the same level as DeepMind’s AlphaZero, a 2017 model that became superhuman at the board games Chess and Go by purely playing against itself and improving, rather than observing any human games.

People across China have taken to social media to hail the success of its homegrown tech startup DeepSeek and its founder, after the company unveiled its newest artificial intelligence model, sending shock waves through Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Luo Fuli, a prominent member of the team which developed DeepSeek AI, is being hailed as an 'AI prodigy' in China, and regarded one of the engineers responsible for the development of the groundbreaking AI model.

Chatbot vanishes in Italy amid claims OpenAI's model was used to train Chinese AI - DeepSeek says its AI model is similar to US giants like OpenAI, despite fears of censorship around issues sensitive

U.S. companies were spooked when the Chinese startup released models said to match or outperform leading American ones at a fraction of the cost.

The rise in popularity of a high-performing and cheaply built Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model has shaken the confidence of investors, while raising larger questions about the future of

DeepSeek says that its v3 model, released on Boxing Day, cost less than $6m (£4.8m) to train, less than a 10th of what Meta spent on its most recent system, and used underpowered Nvidia chips designed for the Chinese market. Unlike companies such as OpenAI, its systems are “open source”, meaning they can be downloaded for free by anybody.

The president’s energy policies may not make America great again, but they will definitely help make China great again.

In some ways, DeepSeek was far less censored than most Chinese platforms, offering answers with keywords that would often be quickly scrubbed on domestic social media. Other times, the program eventually censored itself.