Alibaba Leads Competitors Playing Catchup With China’s DeepSeek
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The next DeepSeek to disrupt the global artificial intelligence industry could also come from China.
The country of 1.4 billion has seeded several promising AI startups and projects, while its leading internet players have spent years investing and developing the infrastructure to support such new ventures. With the DeepSeek experience casting doubt over the need for bleeding-edge expensive AI hardware from the likes of Nvidia Corp. — which the US has banned from sale in China — the prospects of China’s up-and-coming AI companies look to be improving.