US & China Race for AI Supremacy
The Chinese tech sector has been on a roll since the arrival in January of DeepSeek, the AI startup that stunned the world with a language model that claimed to match or outperform Western rivals, at a fraction of the cost. 'Bloomberg Tech: Asia' anchor Annabelle Droulers reports on how the rapid strides in AI are poised to escalate the tech "cold war" between the US and China. (Source: Bloomberg)
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