
DeepSeek’s victory embodies China’s interests in artificial intelligence. However, it might also harm the authority that the country’s leaders have in place.
In 2017, China watched in awe — and horror — as AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence program backed by Google, defeated a Taiwanese prodigy at a complicated board game, Go. A South Asian person had also trounced a foreign computer system, so the decisive defeat was a sort of Sputnik instant for China.
Chinese officials announced a bold plan to dominate the A.I. by 2030, promising billion to businesses and academics with a focus on the systems in the year. DeepSeek, a largely unknown Chinese start-up that revolutionized the tech landscape by developing a potent A.I. model for the least amount of money, was born out of this fervor.
is personal, with no visible state funding, but its success embodies the ambitions of China’s major leader, Xi Jinping, who has exhorted his country to “occupy the dominant heights” of technology. Mr. Xi wants the Chinese market to be driven by the most cutting-edge technologies like A.I., supercomputing, and efficient energy rather than traditional development engines like debt-fueled real estate and affordable exports.
This time, in Mr. Xi’s opinion, helps to dispel the impression that the United States has in A. I., a crucial area of a brutal superpower conflict. China has cast itself as a benign global partner to developing countries, willing to share its know-how, with that A. I. should not be a “game of rich countries and the wealthy”.
DeepSeek has recently demonstrated that China might be able to create A. I. less expensive and more available for everyone. The question is how the ruling Communist Party handles the development of a technology that may one day harm its objectives and hold on to power.
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