🇨🇳🌐 5 New Ways China's DeepSeek Is Driving Geopolitical Change
The geopolitics of AI enters a higher gear
This time last year, nobody had heard of DeepSeek. A year later, DeepSeek has joined the ranks of the established AI platforms. This is no fad or trend. Universities in China have begun to launch “DeepSeek courses.” These are courses that roll out DeepSeek at-scale to enhance teaching and open up new learning potential for students. While ChatGPT is a new “core” of education in the West, DeepSeek is its counter in China. The Chinese AI is also having a ricochet effect on Western firms, like chip firms, who are seeing Chinese orders for certain AI chips rise as DeepSeek is deployed in more and more settings.
DeepSeek is not going away anytime soon. And while its advent has already brought immense geopolitical uncertainty, from how DeepSeek built such a powerful AI with a limited number of GPUs to what kind of pre-built censorship exists in the AI system, the “Geopolitics of DeepSeek” is accelerating and expanding into new areas.
All of this is pushing the “Geopolitics of AI,” a concept/expression I coined in 2016, into a higher gear.
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