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Chinese technology stocks are lagging behind their US counterparts in the AI race, even as domestic champions Huawei and DeepSeek make measurable progress in artificial intelligence. The gap has drawn attention from investors weighing China's homegrown AI advances against the market dominance of American firms, with the discrepancy between corporate progress and stock performance raising questions about valuations.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI distillation — the practice of training smaller models on the outputs of larger ones — is normal competition. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has previously described the same practice as 'theft', echoing claims that companies like DeepSeek built models using American AI outputs without authorisation. The exchange highlights a divide over whether model distillation is legitimate industry practice or misappropriation of US technology.

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has released official preview versions of an Electron-based desktop application for Windows and macOS, available as release candidate and nightly builds via its download CDN. The packages reuse the company's existing Web UI and agent runtime instead of being built from scratch. Observers see the move as DeepSeek extending its chatbot beyond the browser, though the software remains at an early, pre-release stage.

A guide circulating among Linux users explains how to query and compare several large language models, including Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Grok and GLM, from the command line using Python and API aggregators. It walks through setting up access to multiple providers so outputs can be reviewed side by side, aimed at developers choosing between AI services or testing models on their own machines.

A question is being raised in developer and open-source circles about whether recent criticism of generative AI tools is genuine technical critique or activism against AI. The debate touches on widely used coding assistants including Claude, Codex, Gemini, Deepseek and GLM, and reflects a broader split among programmers over the value and ethics of AI in software development.

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek says it used open-source software tools running on Huawei Ascend chips, underscoring its reliance on domestically developed hardware and software amid US export restrictions on advanced chips. The claim is drawing attention to China's push for a self-sufficient AI stack built on homegrown silicon and open-source frameworks.

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has partnered with Huawei to develop chip programming tools, a move that reduces its dependence on Nvidia's hardware. The collaboration signals a deepening push by Chinese AI companies to build on domestic silicon amid US export restrictions on advanced chips. The alliance pairs one of China's leading AI labs with its top domestic chipmaker.

Modellix has released a new plugin for the DeepSeek Harness, according to Open Source For You. The release ties into growing interest around DeepSeek's open-source AI tooling, giving developers another integration option for the framework. Details on pricing and features remain thin, but the move adds to a wave of ecosystem tools building up around DeepSeek's models.