By Eduardo Baptista, Julie Zhu and Fanny Potkin BEIJING/HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - DeepSeek is looking to press home its advantage. The Chinese startup triggered a $1 trillion-plus sell-off in global equities markets last month with a cut-price AI reasoning model that outperformed many Western competitors.
Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent are driving demand for NVIDIA H20 chips, fueling China’s AI boom despite U.S. export restrictions.
The introduction of QwQ-Max-Preview comes as Alibaba pledges to invest US$53 billion on cloud and AI infrastructure in the next three years.
Nvidia’s H20 chips are in high demand in China—indicating that DeepSeek's more efficient AI doesn’t mean lower chip demand.
Alibaba's QwQ-Max-Preview is designed to replicate human-like thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving. The company aims to democratize AI by making its models accessible to a broader audience1. The Qwen team has indicated that the full version of QwQ-Max will be made open source upon its official release
The Chinese computing power market has experienced significant growth following the debut of DeepSeek R1. According to market sources, the end of the Lunar New Year holidays has increased activity as Internet and cloud service providers integrate with DeepSeek,
Here are two ways to try R1 without exposing your data to foreign servers. Perplexity even open-sourced an uncensored version of the model.
Despite an initial knee-jerk reaction from markets, experts told CNBC that cheaper and more efficient AI models could ultimately boost the data center market.
Last month, DeepSeek's reasoning model R1 made a big splash, however, it was criticized for censoring topics to do with China. While this seems like quite a niche topic, the censorship could ...
In a move that has caught the attention of many, Perplexity AI has released a new version of a popular open-source language model that strips away built-in Chinese censorship. This modified model, dubbed R1 1776 (a name evoking the spirit of independence),
CNBC projected that the emergence of cheaper AI models from China could increase the demand for data centers. Analysts reportedly tilted their forecasts after DeepSeek’s launch, anticipating immediate impacts on the industry.