Chinese startup called DeepSeek unveiled a new artificial intelligence system that could match the capabilities of cutting-edge chatbots from companies such as OpenAI and Google, as per a report. That alone would have been a milestone.

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Despite the American government’s efforts to hold back China’s AI industry, two Chinese firms had reduced their American counterparts’ technological lead to a matter of weeks. It is not just with reasoning models that Chinese firms are in the vanguard: in December DeepSeek published a new large language model ( LLM ),

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The app, which was set to be banned, now has a bit more time to find a home and address national security issues

With a new model that matches the performance of ChatGPT o1, DeepSeek managed to turn restrictions into innovation.

This has two knock-on effects that are much longer term. First, we now know that a U.S. TikTok ban will be difficult to bypass if it comes back — and the same will be true for any other Chinese (or other) app banned in the same way. There are some options, as I reported over the weekend, but none of them are especially compelling.

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