According to the analysis firm Graphika, Chinese social media accounts linked to the government in Beijing supported the launch of DeepSeek's chatbot, as reported by Reuters on Friday. Among these accounts were profiles belonging to diplomats,

According to the analytical company Graphika, Chinese social media accounts connected to the government in Beijing supported the launch of the DeepSeek company's chatbot, reported Reuters on Friday. Among these accounts were profiles belonging to diplomats,

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.

The 40-year-old founder of China's DeepSeek, an AI startup that has startled markets with its capacity to compete with industry leaders like OpenAI, kept a low profile as he built up a hedge fund that now manages a reported $8 billion in assets.

As China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence app stunned both the stock market and the tech world this week, President Trump faces tough new questions over how the U.S. will compete with Beijing in the booming fields of AI and superconductor production.

DeepSeek says its AI model is similar to US giants like OpenAI, despite fears of censorship around issues sensitive to Beijing

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Those who have had professional dealings with DeepSeek say he is obsessed with human-like artificial general intelligence ( AGI) and the impact it could have on the world. In his pursuit of it, DeepSeek’s founder is up-ending ideas about technological progress both in the West and China.

The founder of artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek, touted as 2025's "biggest dark horse" in the open-source large language model (LLM) arena, emerged as the industry's new face in China at a symposium hosted by Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Monday.

A $1 trillion wipeout in the US stock market has given Liang Wenfeng a new burst of online stardom, with one Chinese paper calling him a "great god."

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued a ban on Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek for government-issued devices, becoming the first state to restrict the popular chatbot in such a manner.