Artificial intelligence will play a critical role in shaping China's fortunes as a great power. Yet Beijing’s attempt to translate wins by today’s innovators like DeepSeek and others into wider gains for the $18 trillion economy will be challenged not just by the United States but also by the Chinese Communist Party’s own desire to maintain control.

The country’s meteorological agency is considering using DeepSeek to help power predictions, but Beijing’s tight control of the sector signals risks ahead.

Zheng Yongnian at CUHK-Shenzhen says ‘excessive nationalism would be detrimental for China in the fiercer tech competition down the road’.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has introduced Grok-3, the latest iteration of its chatbot, as it looks to compete with Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, Microsoft-backed OpenAI, and Alphabet's Google.

Bans on the chatbot in South Korea have curbed DeepSeek's growth in one of the world's most important markets.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice explains her stance on the AI race, praising Vice President JD Vance for championing deregulation on the world stage.

Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holding posted its fastest revenue growth in more than a year, beating analyst expectations as it capitalizes on the artificial intelligence boom in China. Alibaba said Thursday that its revenue for the quarter ended December grew 8% to 280.

Google’s AI chief told employees that he’s not worried about China’s DeepSeek and said the search giant has superior artificial intelligence technology, according to audio of an all-hands meeting in Paris on Wednesday.

According to reporting by The Associated Press, industry analysts said the app vaulted above American companies’ generative AI — machine learning that creates such content as music, images and text — at a much lower cost,