OpenAI announced today that it is releasing a new family of artificial intelligence models optimized to excel at coding, as it ramps up efforts to fend off increasingly stiff competition from companies like Google and Anthropic. The models are available to developers through OpenAI’s application programming interface (API). OpenAI isContinue Reading
Stanford’s report shows Chinese AI is on the rise overall, with models from Chinese companies scoring similar to their US counterparts on the LMSYS benchmark. It notes that China publishes more AI papers and files more AI-related patents than the US, although it does not assess the quality of either.Continue Reading
Sam Altman today revealed that OpenAI will release an open weight artificial intelligence model in the coming months. “We are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months,” Altman wrote on X. Altman said in the post that the company has been thinkingContinue Reading
DeepSeek has triggered a dramatic shift in the global AI race: it transformed the previously dominant framing of a China-U.S. AI rivalry into a broader global competition, especially among emerging powers in the Global South. This shift is particularly evident in India’s case. DeepSeek’s overnight success significantly reshaped New Delhi’sContinue Reading
Malaysia’s government says that it will tighten its regulations on semiconductors after coming under pressure from the U.S. to prevent the country from being used to facilitate the illicit flow to China of restricted Nvidia chips used to develop artificial intelligence (AI). In a report published yesterday, the Financial TimesContinue Reading
On March 13, OpenAI released a proposal for the U.S. AI Action Plan. The report asserts that while the United States currently holds a leading position in the field of artificial intelligence, the success of China-based DeepSeek indicates that this advantage is not as significant as it appears and isContinue Reading
BEIJING: China’s Baidu said on Sunday (Mar 16) it has launched two new artificial intelligence (AI) models, including a new reasoning-focused model that it said rivalled DeepSeek’s model, as it vies to stand out in a fiercely competitive AI race. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s roll-out of AI models which itContinue Reading
A mobile shooting game developed by Tencent is using DeepSeek to power an in-game assistant that can, among other things, give players fortune-telling readers about whether they are going to have a great gaming session that day or not. CGN Power, a state-owned nuclear power company, vaguely stated that itContinue Reading
To many, the meteoric rise of DeepSeek is a “Sputnik moment.” Despite its modest scale and resources, the Hangzhou-based AI startup has come a long way, surmounting tech barriers, export controls, and trade restrictions. Chinese media and tech insiders have hailed its emergence as a “historic moment” for China’s innovationContinue Reading
While Manus has provided little information about its corporate structure, its team and underlying models for the agent, the demo video has triggered massive interest. The video, published on X on Wednesday night (Mar 5), had received over 200,000 views by noon Thursday, with many comments asking for an invitationContinue Reading
