Loni Prinsloo

Senior Africa reporter for Bloomberg based in Johannesburg, providing on-the-ground reporting and analysis about African tech adoption and market dynamics.

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Dec 29, 2025 • 18min

Why African Startups Are Embracing DeepSeek

Loni Prinsloo, a Senior Africa reporter for Bloomberg, and Helen Nyambura, East Africa bureau chief, delve into China's DeepSeek and Huawei's push into the African tech landscape. They discuss the appeal of DeepSeek's cost-effective, customizable AI solutions over Western offerings like OpenAI. The duo highlights Huawei’s ambitions in government cloud services, concerns about data privacy, and China’s broader tech diplomacy. They also ponder the potential for Africa to cultivate its own AI industry amidst these dynamics.

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