DeepSeek challenges AI giants

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released its next-generation foundational model, V4, optimized to run on Huawei's Ascend hardware.

The new release features improved coding benchmarks and reasoning tasks as China pushes for greater technological autonomy.

While the company claims the model matches leading U.S. systems, some analysts suggest it has yet to narrow the gap with giants like OpenAI and Anthropic.

The launch comes amid a global race for AI dominance and increasing U.S. export controls on high-end semiconductors.