DeepSeek: The View from China

China's takes are better than yours

Before December 2024, DeepSeek was rarely mentioned in China’s AI community. With the release of DeepSeek-V3 and the reasoning model R1, Chinese media and AI researchers started to ask the same question as their American counterparts: Who is DeepSeek and how should we feel about them? In this newsletter, we share a translation of insights from a January 26 closed-door session hosted by Shixiang 拾象, a VC spun out from Sequoia China. Attended by dozens of AI researchers, investors, and industry insiders, the event captures how the Chinese AI community is processing the DeepSeek shock. A core…

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