AI spread validates power of human progress

SONG CHEN/CHINA DAILY DeepSeek has launched a series of innovative, large-model AI products, creating a global sensation. In the intensifying technological containment battle, DeepSeek's rise not only shows the breakthroughs China has made in AI but also reveals a reality: In the era of high-tech competition, administrative measures can no longer block market-driven diffusion of technology. And the diffusion of technology is not a scientific experiment but a complex socioeconomic development process, in which market demand plays the role of "natural selection". Recent regulations on chips have intensified the "computing guerrilla warfare", with Chinese companies continuously improving large-model parameter efficiency through heterogeneous computing and model compression technologies to achieve better performance with the same computing power. This "counter-sanction evolution" is evident in DeepSeek: the model architecture shifted from Transformer to the more resistant Hyena hierarchical structure, training data moved from publicly available corpora to UGC crowd-sourcing, and computing power shifted from centralized procurement to computing node crowd-funding.