States of Play by Sam Olsen

States of Play by Sam Olsen

How China is Winning the Global Tech Race, and Why This Matters

Why DeepSeek is so important for the shape of the world order to come

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Sam Olsen
Feb 01, 2025
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Hello and welcome back to What China Wants.

Most, if not all of you will have seen the news this week about the release of DeepSeek-R1, the AI chatbot that performs just as well as the US’s own ChatGPT (by OpenAI) or Gemini (by Google) – but which apparently cost just a fraction to produce.

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