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DeepSeek is an artificial intelligence app developed in China
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DeepSeek down: AI chatbot faces longest outage since rise of R1 and V3 models
Tech •DeepSeek’s chatbot experienced the longest outage on Monday. According to the company’s status page, the platform was hit by a “major outage” that lasted approximately 7 hours and 13 minutes.
A mystery AI model has developers buzzing: Is this DeepSeek's latest blockbuster?
•The free model, called Hunter Alpha, surfaced on the AI gateway platform OpenRouter on March 11 without any developer attribution and was later described by the platform as a "stealth model."
DeepSeek sidelines Nvidia, AMD in latest AI model rollout, Huawei gets early access: Report
Fp Business Desk •Breaking from industry practice ahead of a major release, DeepSeek did not share pre-release versions of its next model, V4, with Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) for performance optimisation. Instead, it granted early access to domestic suppliers
China’s DeepSeek trained AI model on Nvidia’s Blackwell chip despite US ban: Report
Fp Business Desk •Chinese AI startup may have accessed banned Blackwell processors, raising fresh questions over export control enforcement and the intensifying US–China AI race
China's DeepSeek trained AI model on Nvidia's best chip despite US ban
•The US believes DeepSeek will remove the technical indicators that might reveal its use of American AI chips, the official said, adding that the Blackwells are likely clustered at its data center in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of China.
OpenAI says China's DeepSeek trained its AI by distilling US models, memo shows
•In a memo to the US House Committee on Strategic Competition with the Chinese Communist Party, OpenAI said it found DeepSeek employees using hidden third-party routers to bypass its access restrictions.
ByteDance's new AI video model goes viral as China looks for second DeepSeek moment
•While text-centric AI models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and DeepSeek's R1 have become widely adopted, models specialised in generating videos and pictures represent the next frontier in the technology's potential for disruption.
DeepSeek receives conditional approval to purchase Nvidia H200 GPUs
•China has approved DeepSeek to purchase Nvidia H200 AI chips under regulatory conditions still being finalised, marking a breakthrough in US-China tech tensions despite strong domestic demand and Beijing's previous import hesitation.
Did Nvidia chip help Chinese military boost its AI power? US lawmaker points to DeepSeek link
Fp Staff •Rep John Moolenar wrote a letter to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said documents obtained by the committee from Nvidia showed the achievement came after extensive technical assistance from the chipmaker
From Air India crash to Zohran Mamdani, the A to Z of 2025
Fp Explainers •How did 2025 unfold? As we near the end of the year, we look back at the news and newsmakers who grabbed headlines — from tariffs to terror attacks and everything in between