China's dive into AI shows why Britain must stop letting its tech talent escape overseas, says ALEX BRUMMER Among the lessons of the DeepSeek saga is never underestimate Chinese ingenuity.
At a time when Silicon Valley has been squabbling about free access to Open AI’s Chat GPT and ploughing billions into investment, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has done it on the cheap, backed by a native hedge fund, High-Flyer.
Brave new world: With its impressive new Chatbot DeepSeek China appears to have dramatically taken the lead in the global AI race.
In free-market economies, competition provides important incentive and it is hard to think that the Silicon Valley giants will sit on their laurels and allow Deep-Seek to dominate the space with cheaper smart chips.
Sputnik was, of course, the warning to John F Kennedy that the US needed a mission to win the space race.
