DeepSeek Drops V4 Preview, Beats OpenAI on a Budget
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⚡ DeepSeek's bargain compute jolts White House; Google rescues async training, GPT-5.5 & Intel earnings soar
DeepSeek, a Chinese entity, has released its V4 preview, with its low-cost open-source strategy actively reshaping the AI market landscape and directly challenging American giants. This signifies that the US-China AI competition has evolved from a mere technological contest to a comprehensive struggle encompassing market strategies and intellectual property. Notably, White House officials and American AI companies are intensely accusing Chinese entities like DeepSeek of technology theft, highlighting escalating friction. Meanwhile, Google DeepMind continues to seek efficiency breakthroughs in training architectures, demonstrating that the global AI race has transformed into an all-encompassing contest spanning technology, market, and regulation.
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DeepSeek Drops V4 Preview: China’s Newest LLM Emerges
DeepSeek unveils V4 preview, an open-source LLM it says matches GPT-4o at **<1/10 the compute cost**, directly targeting OpenAI, Anthropic, Google.
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DeepSeek V4: Open-Source, Ultra-Cheap LLM Takes on OpenAI & Google
DeepSeek’s V4-Pro & V4-Flash open-source LLMs undercut U.S. rivals, listing at **<20%** of OpenAI/Anthropic equivalents, extending the 2025 shockwave sparked by its low-cost V3.
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White House Accuses China of Stealing U.S. AI Secrets
White House officials Thursday accused Chinese actors of **mass-scale theft** of U.S. AI tech and vowed retaliation. In February, Anthropic charged **DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax** with illicitly siphoning its Claude chatbot; OpenAI also told lawmakers DeepSeek used distillation to **freely harvest** frontier-lab capabilities.
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