TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday released an update to its flagship AI model as a global race intensified to create AI models capable of tackling complex problems.

Meta and other AI competitors are facing challenges from China's DeepSeek as its new AI model outperforms competitors at lower costs.

DeepSeek, now with models that rival the best of the West, has set the stage for a global war in AI inference pricing that is only now becoming clear to the world.

Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, is shaping AI and tech, leading a TikTok-ByteDance merger while facing U.S. Green Card delays.

DeepSeek, an AI platform founded by Liang Wenfeng, surpasses ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app in the U.S., impacting major technology stocks. F

China’s growing influence in AI is evident as companies like DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI are challenging the traditional dominance of US tech giants

Perplexity AI made changes to its merger proposal with ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, on Sunday.  TakeAway Points: Perplexity AI revised the merger proposal it had submitted to TikTok parent ByteDance.

How DeepSeek differs from OpenAI and other AI models, offering open-source access, lower costs, advanced reasoning, and a unique Mixture of Experts architecture.

ByteDance says the Doubao 1.5 Pro is better ... It says its recently released Kimi k1.5 matches or outperforms the OpenAI o1 model, which is designed to spend more time thinking before it responds ...

In an unexpected move on the first day of Lunar New Year, Chinese tech giant Alibaba announced its latest AI model, Qwen 2.5-Max, claiming it outperforms several leading models including the recently released DeepSeek-V3.