How China Became Ideal Incubator for DeepSeek, and Why US May Struggle to Follow

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from Sputnik News:

The seemingly out-of-nowhere rise of Chinese dark horse AI language model DeepSeek has tanked US tech stocks, with President Trump calling it “a wake up call for our industries that we should be laser focused on competing to win.” A leading technology expert tells Sputnik why may be easier said than done.
“In a nutshell, China’s advances in AI highlight that tech leadership is not a birthright of the West anymore,” veteran independent cybersecurity expert and digital strategy advisor Lars Hilse said, commenting on DeepSeek’s emergence overnight to trump all of America’s most advanced large language models in coding, complex problem-solving and analysis benchmarks.

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Hilse says China’s large language model breakthrough was made possible by:

the state’s timely 2017 Next Generation AI Development Plan, “which prioritizes AI as a critical area for economic and tech dominance,”

“China’s vast population, and digitized ecosystem generating unparalleled amounts of data, which is essential for training sophisticated AI models,”

a “talent pipeline” assured by China’s “heavy investment into STEM education”, allowing companies like DeepSeek to pick from a pool of candidates “without compromising cutting edge R&D and cost efficiency,”

prioritization of software optimization, semiconductor production and chip stockpiling amid US restrictions.

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