DeepSeek, a new Chinese chatbot, alarmed American political circles this week. Now, Chinese dissident artists like Ai Weiwei are crying foul.

The AI’s responses to queries related to dissident artists and artistic freedom were terse and biased in favor of the Chinese government.

However, like other Chinese AI chatbots operating under China's regulatory framework, DeepSeek's responses to politically sensitive topics reveal clear limitations. We tested DeepSeek in both Chinese and English on a range of topics,

Government policies, generous funding and a pipeline of AI graduates have helped Chinese firms create advanced LLMs.

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Led by major retrospectives of Ai Weiwei, Wayne Thiebaud, Ruth Asawa, Rashid Johnson and more, these shows illuminate new ways to appreciate top artists, past and present.

U.S. companies were spooked when the Chinese startup released models said to match or outperform leading American ones at a fraction of the cost.

Top White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China's DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of U.S. rivals called "distillation."

Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio talked about DeepSeek, the tech wars, and large-scale AI companies like Nvidia in a recent podcast interview.

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence app, offered its insight on the maritime dispute in the West Philippine Sea while seemingly avoiding discussion of other issues concerning China and its government.

Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Max AI model sets new performance benchmarks in enterprise-ready artificial intelligence, promising reduced infrastructure costs and improved efficiency for business applications.

A Chinese artificial-intelligence company has Silicon Valley raving, calling it "amazing and impressive,"despite working with less-advanced chips.