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China’s DeepSeek just dropped a new GPT-5 rival—optimized for Chinese chips, priced to undercut OpenAI


DeepSeek’s new V3.1 model debuts several design innovations and highlights the intensity of the U.S.-China AI rivalry.

DeepSeek is a core part of China’s broader push to develop, deploy, and control advanced AI systems without relying on foreign technology. DeepSeek’s new release, however, coming just after OpenAI’s GPT-5—a rollout that fell short of industry watchers’ high expectations—underscores Beijing’s determination to keep pace with, or even leapfrog, top U.S. labs. For all the technical details, though, DeepSeek’s latest release highlights the fact that AI is increasingly seen as part of a simmering technological cold war between the U.S. and China.

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