At least three other companies including those backed by Alibaba and Tencent released updates to their applications in recent weeks.

We explain how China’s start-up DeepSeek has made significant strides in the global AI race with its resource-efficient, open-source models.

China's Alibaba unveils new AI model Qwen 2.5 Max, claiming it outperforms ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Llama in the AI race.

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI research lab, has released an advanced AI model which rivals leading models from OpenAI. The DeepSeek-R1 model can perform complicated mathematical reasoning, code generation, and more with fewer resources than its American competitors.