DeepSeek, a new Chinese chatbot, alarmed American political circles this week. Now, Chinese dissident artists like Ai Weiwei are crying foul.

However, like other Chinese AI chatbots operating under China's regulatory framework, DeepSeek's responses to politically sensitive topics reveal clear limitations. We tested DeepSeek in both Chinese and English on a range of topics,

The AI’s responses to queries related to dissident artists and artistic freedom were terse and biased in favor of the Chinese government.

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.

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There’s been an escalation in the generative AI large language model “wars” as Alibaba Qwen 2.5 launched Wednesday. This latest AI salvo from China-based Alibaba is directly aimed at its in-country rival DeepSeek, which launched its own AI--DeepSeek-V3--in December 2024 and its R1 version in mid-January.

If AI really doesn’t need that much power, energy companies have less incentive to produce more.

Analysts say China’s AI investment is just beginning to pay off, with more firms expected to launch their own models soon.

Two days after the release of DeepSeek-R1, TikTok owner ByteDance released an update to its flagship AI model, which it claimed outperformed Microsoft-backed OpenAI's o1 in AIME, a benchmark test that measures how well AI models understand and respond to complex instructions.

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence app, offered its insight on the maritime dispute in the West Philippine Sea while seemingly avoiding discussion of other issues concerning China and its government.

The AI startup developed a top system by relying on inexperienced engineers and a loophole in U.S. export controls.