Six months ago DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial-intelligence (AI) firm, wowed the world with the v3 model and its successors. For the first time, a country other than America—and one that America had ...

China’s open source AI models have been making the news lately for their strong performance on various AI tasks such as coding and “reasoning.” However, they have also attracted criticism — including ...

Chinese firms continue to release AI models that rival the capabilities of systems developed by OpenAI and other U.S.-based AI companies. MiniMax claims that MiniMax-Text-01, which is 456 billion ...

With a new reasoning model that matches the performance of ChatGPT o1, DeepSeek managed to turn restrictions into innovation. The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning ...

For Alibaba and several Chinese AI startups, open-source AI presents an opportunity for faster commercialization and global recognition. This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology ...