The row over South Korea’s push for a native AI model: Chinese code

Korea’s efforts show how hard it is to develop homegrown AI models and break a reliance on U.S. or Chinese tech giants.
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South Korea AI champions caught using Chinese code amid $6.9B ‘sovereign AI’ outlay

A South Korean government effort to develop a nationally independent artificial intelligence system has run into trouble ...
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2025 AI Review: When Chatbots Started Doing Our Jobs

From 'reasoning' models to the rise of Chinese tech, 2025 reshaped the AI landscape. Here is what matters for UAE techies and ...
The New York Times

The Coder ‘Village’ at the Heart of China’s A.I. Frenzy

As China vies with Silicon Valley for primacy, Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, is where its aspiring tech titans mingle and share ideas. The West Lake in Hangzhou, China. The city has become a ...

Another Chinese quant fund joins DeepSeek in AI race with model rivalling GPT-5.1, Claude

Beijing-based Ubiquant launches code-focused systems claiming benchmark wins over US peers despite using far fewer parameters ...
VentureBeat

Qwen2.5-Coder just changed the game for AI programming—and it's free

Alibaba Cloud has released Qwen2.5-Coder, a new AI coding assistant that has already become the second most popular demo on Hugging Face Spaces. Early tests suggest its performance rivals GPT-4o, and ...