DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough ‘is biggest shock to come out of China in 185 years’

DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough ‘is biggest shock to come out of China in 185 years’

[South China Morning Post] - 02/5/2025

Leading scientist Rao Yi argues that the significance of the tech’s challenge to US dominance lies in ‘how surprising it was to the world’.



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DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough ‘is biggest shock to come out of China in 185 years’
Leading scientist Rao Yi argues that the significance of the tech’s challenge to US dominance lies in ‘how (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025