DeepSeek ‘is biggest shock to come out of China in 185 years’
- Posted on February 5, 2025
- By South China Morning Post
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DeepSeek ‘is biggest shock to come out of China in 185 years’
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Leading scientist Rao Yi argues that the significance of the tech’s challenge to US dominance lies in ‘how surprising it was to the world’.