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The Guardian view on a global AI race: geopolitics, innovation and the rise of chaos

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Last week , the Chinese lab DeepSeek unveiled R1 , an AI that analysts say rivals OpenAI ’s top reasoning model, o1.

Astonishingly, it matches the capabilities of o1 while using a fraction of the computing power and at a tenth of the cost.

One of Putin 's first moves in 2025 was to align with China on AI development.

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