Chinese market analysts believe DeepSeek's launch is a 'watershed' moment that shows Beijing can hold its ground amid an intense tech war with rival US

Nissan did not want to be a Honda subsidiary, according to sources reported by Nikkei; its board is now reportedly reconsidering it's options

Huawei to make DeepSeek model available on Ascend, while Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent's cloud arms also say they've made its models accessible via their services

The lifting of the de minimis loophole will hurt the Chinese and US e-commerce firms but won't kill them, an analyst said

Carmakers of both EVs and Japanese firms like Toyota have had to offer big discounts as they are locked in a bruising price war, while the economy is sluggish

Social media accounts run by Chinese state media, plus embassies highlighted DeepSeek's 'breakthrough' prior to the stock crash on Monday and push Beijing's narrative on surpassing the US in critical areas of competition, report says

"Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms ... almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B," Alibaba's cloud unit claimed on Wednesday

US executives say limiting the 'distillation' process from open-source models, in which one AI system learns from another, may be difficult to stop

The investment will be made by the Singapore unit of TikTok's parent Bytedance and the data centre will support companies affiliated with the popular short-video site

PM says: “We will urgently look at whether we need to make more cooperative plans and future assistance programmes for the industrial sector."

Microsoft's security researchers observed that "individuals they believed to be connected to DeepSeek" were involved in an unauthorized data transfer several months ago

Meta has reportedly established four "war rooms" with engineers to assess the AI model developed by Chinese startup DeepSeek, insiders have alleged