This month, universities all throughout China began offering artificial intelligence (AI) courses based on DeepSeek, a Chinese AI business whose achievement has received international attention and been dubbed a “Sputnik moment” for China.
In order to generate new sources of growth for the second-largest economy in the world, Chinese authorities are attempting to encourage scientific and technical innovation in schools and universities.
Silicon Valley executives and engineers from US tech companies have praised Hangzhou-based startup DeepSeek, claiming that its DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 models are comparable to the most sophisticated models from OpenAI and Meta.
This Monday, Shenzhen University in the southern Guangdong region announced the opening of a DeepSeek-based artificial intelligence school.
