How an Australian uni student helped create China's revolutionary AI platform DeepSeek
A software engineer who studied computer science in Australia after graduating from a university linked to the Chinese military has emerged as one of the key figures behind the groundbreaking and controversial artificial intelligence platform, DeepSeek. Behind it is a screen with ChatGPT DeepSeek's AI assistant — a direct competitor to ChatGPT — has become the number one downloaded free app on Apple's App Store, with some worrying the Chinese startup has disrupted the US market. Zizheng Pan's former colleague Zhiding Yu, who supervised him while he was an intern at rival American company Nvidia in 2023, has praised the Chinese computer scientist as a "pivotal contributor to multiple significant innovations" at DeepSeek. China slams Australia's DeepSeek ban on government devices Photo shows A dark silhouette of a hand holding a mobile phone showing a purple DeepSeek logo and loading screen in front of a Chinese flag In a Chinese foreign ministry statement, the Australian ban was described as the 'politicisation of economic, trade and technological issues'. The Chinese government slammed Australia's decision to ban the program on Wednesday night, describing the move as the "politicisation of economic, trade and technological issues".
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