How Trump’s U-turn on chips could unleash Chinese AI
China has top-flight models. But export controls left it struggling to run them
Six months ago DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial-intelligence (AI) firm, wowed the world with the v3 model and its successors. For the first time, a country other than America—and one that America had cut off from the supply of top-of-the-range semiconductor chips—was producing open-source models that rivalled those designed in Silicon Valley.
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