DeepSeek and chip bans have supercharged AI innovation in China

Testimony in Review: Adam Thierer’s April 2025 Appearance Before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology - R Street Institute

On April 8, 2025, the R Street Institute’s Adam Thierer testified before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology’s Subcommittee on Research and Technology at a hearing titled “DeepSeek: A Deep Dive.” The session aimed to scrutinize DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform associated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and assess its implications for... The post Testimony in Review: Adam Thierer’s April 2025 Appearance…

DeepSeek Is Already Being Applied Widely Across China’s Industries, And Used For Government Surveillance And Propaganda

It’s just three months since the Chinese company DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model. In that time, its global impact has been dramatic: An article in Fortune magazine described how DeepSeek had “erased Silicon Valley’s AI lead and wiped $1 trillion from U.S. markets.” It also immediately raised serious privacy issues in the EU. The speed at which DeepSeek-R1 was built, and the relatively low cost of doing so, has had another dramatic knock…

DeepSeek and chip bans have supercharged AI innovation in China

China’s top tech firms are rushing to release open-source AI models, while startups face pressure to build practical tools over foundation models.

DeepSeek fully integrated in Realme UI and upgraded with new features; 29 Realme models in China have been fully upgraded with DeepSeek - The Tech Outlook

Last month, Realme integrated the DeepSeek R1 model into its Realme UI 6.0 custom skin, and the upgrade was rolled out to a few of the Realme models. The company has now announced that DeepSeek is now fully integrated into Realme UI for the Chinese users, while it has also been upgraded with new features. RealmeUI x DeepSeek: Upgraded The upgraded features include- Online direct search of picture documents- Xiaobu Assistant APP supports posting…

At the beginning of 2025, DeepSeek AI landed with a derisory cost and solid performance. Soon ManusAI took over, confirming that China did not just plan to follow... but dominate. But it was only warming up. The shock announcement came from Hefei's National Institute of Artificial Intelligence: the quantum computer Origin Wukong was used to refine a LLM in real condition, and this is the first time in the world that such a feat is made with conc…

The artificial intelligence ecosystem is undergoing a remarkable transformation. More and more companies are betting on opening up the code of their tools to drive collective innovation. One of the most recent to join this wave is DeepSeek AI, a China-based AI AI laboratory that has just announced that it will release the inference engine of its models. This step not only reflects a commitment to the community of developers and academics, but al…