That release was a fitting reminder to the world, especially during the peak of the Christmas holiday season, about Chinese AI companies\u2019 sharpened focus on innovation to stay ahead in this fast-developing industry.<\/p>\n
It was around this time last year when DeepSeek started to get widely noticed days after releasing its namesake large language model (LLM), DeepSeek-V3<\/a>. Weeks later on January 20, reasoning model DeepSeek-R1<\/a> was released.The two models either surpassed or matched the performance of rival models across a range of industry benchmark tests. They were also built at a fraction of the cost and computing power that major US tech companies invest to build LLMs. The result: a massive sell-off on January 27 wiped out nearly US$1 trillion in tech stocks, including US$600 billion from Nvidia<\/a> alone.<\/p>\n Analysts expected the momentum of Chinese AI companies to continue this year, thanks to Beijing\u2019s policy support, improved funding prospects, greater adoption of AI systems across industries and a growing number of talent being recruited for innovative projects.<\/p>\n A domestic AI start-up\u2019s co-founder, who declined to be identified, predicted that China would overtake the US to become \u201cthe world\u2019s leading AI power in 2027\u201d. China\u2019s advantage was its deep talent pool, according to the co-founder.<\/p>\n In his New Year\u2019s address, Chinese President Xi Jinping<\/a> pointed out that the domestic market has \u201cmany large AI models competing in a race to the top\u201d, while new breakthroughs were being achieved in domestic semiconductor<\/a> development. All of that \u201chas turned China into one of the economies with the fastest growing innovation capabilities\u201d, Xi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That release was a fitting reminder to the world, especially during the peak of the Christmas holiday season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[75758,135691,135690,291,17576,135692,783,24532,19024,289,290,92464,1793,88851,8473,297,381,93662,8736,125797,117030,18,4202,21742,19,105789,135688,11092,17,14632,97711,133708,1722,3337,47606,24535,292,135689,21385,14664,2634,42669,82,38578,135687,38939,123832,3149,3997,79322,134682,97707,59706],"class_list":{"0":"post-264771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-15th-five-year-plan","9":"tag-adam-tang","10":"tag-agentic-ai-smartphone","11":"tag-ai","12":"tag-ai-glasses","13":"tag-ai-smartphones","14":"tag-airbnb","15":"tag-alibaba-cloud","16":"tag-alibaba-group-holding","17":"tag-artificial-intelligence","18":"tag-artificialintelligence","19":"tag-avocado","20":"tag-beijing","21":"tag-brian-chesky","22":"tag-bytedance","23":"tag-chatgpt","24":"tag-china","25":"tag-cursor","26":"tag-deepseek","27":"tag-digichina-project","28":"tag-doubao","29":"tag-eire","30":"tag-hong-kong","31":"tag-humanoid-robots","32":"tag-ie","33":"tag-iimedia","34":"tag-institute-for-human-centered-artificial-intelligence","35":"tag-ipo","36":"tag-ireland","37":"tag-large-language-models","38":"tag-liang-wenfeng","39":"tag-manus","40":"tag-meta","41":"tag-meta-platforms","42":"tag-minimax","43":"tag-moonshot-ai","44":"tag-nvidia","45":"tag-quark","46":"tag-qwen","47":"tag-semiconductor","48":"tag-stanford-university","49":"tag-start-ups","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-unitree-robotics","52":"tag-v1","53":"tag-v3","54":"tag-wang-xingxing","55":"tag-wearables","56":"tag-xi-jinping","57":"tag-xinhua-news-agency","58":"tag-yang-zhilin","59":"tag-zhipu-ai","60":"tag-zte"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}