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.

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

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.

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

Hong Kong: The Chinese artificial intelligence firm, DeepSeek, has made waves in the tech world by claiming its new AI model, R1, performs just as well as OpenAI’s offerings. What’s even more astonishing is that R1 achieves this despite using less powerful computer chips and consuming far less energy than its rivals.

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

Chinese tech giant Alibaba released a new AI model, Qwen 2.5, coinciding with the Lunar New Year. This launch, driven by competition with DeepSeek's s

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.

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.