Chinese startup DeepSeek announced DeepSeek-R1-0528 on 28 May 2025, delivering significant performance improvements in complex reasoning tasks and achieving near-parity capabilities with paid models OpenAI o3 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro. The update increased accuracy on the AIME 2025 test from 70% to 87.5%, whilst improving coding performance
The European Commission has detailed a €20 billion (£17 billion) plan to create new AI gigafactories in Europe for developing next-generation artificial intelligence models. These facilities will be powered by up to 100,000 advanced AI processors and target significant innovations in healthcare, biotech, industry, robotics, and scientific discovery. The
Data centers form the backbone of the digital ecosystem, and their geographical distribution provides a significant strategic advantage to the United States. The United States hosts 45.6% of the world's 11,800 data centers, far exceeding countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom (4.4% each)
China’s AI infrastructure boom, which began following the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, is collapsing, with a significant portion—up to 80%, according to sources—of the more than 150 government-backed data centres now standing empty. The national ambition to become a leader in artificial intelligence technology has
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is expected to impose a fine exceeding €500 million on TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, for unlawfully transferring European user data to China for analysis. This is anticipated to be the third largest GDPR fine, following Meta’s €1.2 billion and Amazon’s
On 27 February 2025, Chinese tech giant Tencent unveiled its latest “fast-thinking” artificial intelligence model, the Hunyuan Turbo S. Compared to the DeepSeek R1 model, it boasts a 44% reduction in response time and twice the word generation speed. The new model adopts an innovative Hybrid-Mamba-Transformer architecture, which significantly reduces
In January, the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek launched its R1 language model, delivering performance comparable to OpenAI’s models at a development cost of just $6 million. This poses a significant challenge to Europe’s Mistral AI, which has secured over €1 billion in investment and reached a valuation of
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has shaken the global technology market after unveiling its R1 model in January 2025, which delivers performance matching American competitors at a fraction of the cost. The development was achieved for $5.6 million, compared to the American Stargate project's $500 billion budget.
