Dinner conversations were dominated by DeepSeek and other A.I. chatbots. Electric cars whizzed by, and apps offered drone food delivery. Unitree humanoid robots danced and spun handkerchiefs onstage during the “Spring Festival Gala,” China’s most-watched TV program, making the company a household name overnight.

The Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek poses a great risk to American AI companies and a host of national security problems.

If history is any guide, China’s AI capabilities are likely to catch up to – and even surpass – those of the United States. And US President Donald Trump’s trade and immigration policies, along with his administration’s gutting of research spending,

A new front has opened in the AI race between the U.S. and China. A six-month old Chinese startup has jumped into the market for coding assistants aimed at amateurs, hoping to make a global splash the way Chinese firms DeepSeek and Manus did in open-source models and AI that controls web

Mr Watkins is one of a parade of foreign vloggers posting on their trips since China reopened after covid. Chinese firms have bleeding-edge technology and cultural exports. And the country’s image has been helped by a slump in America’s popularity,

DeepSeek triggered a wave of market enthusiasm for Chinese artificial-intelligence when it shocked the market with its AI model in January. Here's what has happened since then.