DeepSeek, China and Russia AI partnership: Western world is on notice

Manouk Termaaten

Opinion

DeepSeek shocked global markets in January with low-cost models that made it seem like US companies were now behind in the AI arms race. 

The AI lowered the costs of developing reliable AIs, proving itself to be a powerful and cost-efficient open-source language model.

Russia and China, which share what they call a “no limits” strategic partnership, have long talked about AI cooperation—including in military applications.