{"id":20993,"date":"2025-01-28T15:34:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20993"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:27:05","slug":"how-china-is-reacting-to-deepseek-upending-the-a-i-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20993","title":{"rendered":"How China Is Reacting to DeepSeek Upending the A.I. Race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Social media exploded in a celebration after the news that a Chinese start-up had made an artificial intelligence tool that was more efficient than any in the United States.<\/p>\n

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Inside China, it was called the tipping point for the global technological rivalry with the United States and the \u201cdarkest hour\u201d in Silicon Valley, evoking Winston Churchill. It was possibly a breakthrough that could change the country\u2019s destiny.<\/p>\n

The news that the Chinese start-up DeepSeek<\/a> can build artificial intelligence models that are as good as OpenAI\u2019s, and at a fraction of the cost, tanked the stock market on Monday and<\/a> sent Silicon Valley into a panic.<\/p>\n

The claim about DeepSeek\u2019s success was viewed in China as a shot in the arm for a discouraged tech industry and a public that\u2019s suffering through a stagnating economy. On social media posts and state news outlets, DeepSeek was nothing less than a testament to the country\u2019s ability to innovate, especially when facing efforts by the United States to limit China\u2019s access to the most advanced technologies.<\/p>\n

\u201cA nation like China, which is equipped with substantial technological resources, cannot truly be suppressed,\u201d wrote Hu Xijin, a retired editor in chief of the Communist Party tabloid Global Times. \u201cU.S. sanctions in one area will only spur more comprehensive and resilient progress in China, potentially leading to breakthroughs that outpace the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The American semiconductor policies toward China \u201cmay ultimately backfire on the U.S,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

On Monday evening, four out of the 10 most popular topics on the social media platform Weibo were related to DeepSeek.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeepSeek, keep up the momentum!\u201d a Weibo user in Beijing wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nation must protect the founder of DeepSeek at all costs! Seriously!\u201d wrote another user in Shanghai who usually posts about entertainment news.<\/p>\n

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Social media exploded in a celebration after the news that a Chinese start-up had made an artificial intelligence tool that was more efficient than any in the United States.Inside China, it was called the tipping point for the global technological rivalry with the United States and the \u201cdarkest hour\u201d in Silicon Valley, evoking Winston Churchill. It was possibly a breakthrough that could change the country\u2019s destiny.The news that the Chinese start-up DeepSeek can build artificial intelligence models that are as good as OpenAI\u2019s, and at a fraction of the cost, tanked the stock market on Monday and sent Silicon Valley into a panic.The claim about DeepSeek\u2019s success was viewed in China as a shot in the arm for a discouraged tech industry and a public that\u2019s suffering through a stagnating economy. On social media posts and state news outlets, DeepSeek was nothing less than a testament to the country\u2019s ability to innovate, especially when facing efforts by the United States to limit China\u2019s access to the most advanced technologies.\u201cA nation like China, which is equipped with substantial technological resources, cannot truly be suppressed,\u201d wrote Hu Xijin, a retired editor in chief of the Communist Party tabloid Global Times. \u201cU.S. sanctions in one area will only spur more comprehensive and resilient progress in China, potentially leading to breakthroughs that outpace the U.S.\u201dThe American semiconductor policies toward China \u201cmay ultimately backfire on the U.S,\u201d he wrote.On Monday evening, four out of the 10 most popular topics on the social media platform Weibo were related to DeepSeek.\u201cDeepSeek, keep up the momentum!\u201d a Weibo user in Beijing wrote.\u201cThe nation must protect the founder of DeepSeek at all costs! Seriously!\u201d wrote another user in Shanghai who usually posts about entertainment news.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20995,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20996,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993\/revisions\/20996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}