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.

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.

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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.

Barrett Woodside, co-founder of the San Francisco AI hardware company Positron, said he and his colleagues have been abuzz about DeepSeek.

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