“ChinAI #321: Shallow, Narrow, and Slow — the reality of China’s DeepSeek adoption” by Jeffrey Ding

Featured links

• The latest notes on DeepSeek’s all-in-one machine
• Financial Times
• China Brief
• Sources
• LinkedIn posts
• Leiphone article
• The Audiobook version of
• You don’t have to be America or China to win in AI, says Rishi Sunak
• Why are there no massive Chinese SaaS companies?
• The Summer of Free AI-gency

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These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University.

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First published:
July 28th, 2025

Source:
https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-321-deepseek-spreads-across

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