DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based AI startup, is developing its own chip to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei's Ascend processors. This strategic pivot signals significant changes in China's AI landscape.

The US has decided not to blacklist DeepSeek, a Chinese company, along with over 100 other firms identified as security risks. This decision reflects ongoing tensions between the US and China regarding technology and security concerns.

Three AI laboratories—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—conducted industrial-scale campaigns to illicitly extract Claude's capabilities, generating over 16 million exchanges through approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts. These labs employed a technique called "distillation" to train less capable models using Claude's outputs, violating terms of service and access restrictions.