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Li Guojie, a computer scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also suggests that OpenAI may be hitting the scaling wall.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek revealed cost and revenue estimates for its popular V3 and R1 models, showing a theoretical cost-profit ratio of up to 545% per day. This revelation further challenged the economics of U.

OpenAI removed user accounts in China and North Korea linked to using ChatGPT for malicious activities, including surveillance and fraud.

"DeepSeek complements, rather than competes against, existing AI leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind," the Chinese embassy said.

The AI-generated content was published in well-known newspapers in Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador, and appears to be the work of the 'Spamouflage' disinformation campaign.

OpenAI has recently said that it has removed accounts of users from China and North Korea, who the company believes were using technology for malicious purposes.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveiled its latest artificial intelligence reasoning model on Thursday, boasting that its capabilities beat rivals like OpenAI and startup DeepSeek. The news prompted Alibaba’s Hong Kong-listed shares to close 8% higher and helped boost the Hang Seng’s China Enterprises Index.

Alibaba says its QwQ-32B AI model outperforms DeepSeek’s R1 in coding and problem solving while using fewer resources.

Alibaba Cloud on Thursday launched QwQ-32B, a compact reasoning model built on its latest large language model (LLM), Qwen2.5-32b, one it says delivers performance comparable to other large cutting edge models, including Chinese rival DeepSeek and OpenAI’s o1, with only 32 billion parameters.

The model, which was released on open source outperformed DeepSeek's R1, which boasts 671 billion parameters, in areas such as mathematics, coding and general problem-solving