Some Chinese tech stocks advanced today amid the excitement over DeepSeek, although the wider CSI 300 index closed down 0.4 per cent. In Hong Kong Baidu closed 4 per cent up and Alibaba was up 3 per cent. “Tech is up today and the overall sentiment is quite positive in China”, said Wei Li, Head of multi-asset Investments for China at BNP Paribas.

Isomorphic was spun out of Google’s AI research arm Google DeepMind in 2021, but remains a wholly owned subsidiary of its parent company, Alphabet. The start-up’s potential has attracted big pharmaceutical partners, which are keen to lower expenses and boost efficiency of the costly drug development process.

DeepSeek’s a two-years-old, Hangzhou-based spinout of a Zhejiang University company that used machine learning to trade equities. Its stated goal is to make an artificial general intelligence for the fun of it, not for the money. There’s a good interview on ChinaTalk with founder Liang Wenfeng.

I fully agree a “human in the loop” on all AI decision-making processes is a must, ensuring responsible strategies and upholding moral and ethical judgment.

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Stargate, a high-profile artificial intelligence infrastructure project trumpeted by US President Donald Trump this week, will exclusively serve ChatGPT maker OpenAI, according to people familiar with the matter.

Stephen Bush’s Inside Politics newsletter ( FT.com, January 14) rightly states that the government must do more than simply make positive noises about artificial intelligence. If the UK truly aspires to have AI “mainlined into the veins” of our nation, small and medium-sized enterprises are the key.

The new tranche of money from Google into Anthropic adds to a total investment of $8bn from Amazon, the ecommerce group’s largest-ever venture investment, announced over the past 18 months. Amazon is also working to embed the Claude models into the next-generation version of its Alexa speaker.

The rapid development of AI systems over the past two years has stretched American infrastructure, with data centres emerging as a particular bottleneck. Cutting-edge chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude require enormous amounts of data and computing power to train and run.

Digital news units of Indian billionaires Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani, and other outlets including the Indian Express and the Hindustan Times, are joining proceedings against OpenAI for improperly using copyright content,