Chinese universities have started offering AI courses this month based on DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup making headlines for its major breakthrough. This achievement has been called a “Sputnik moment” for China, drawing attention worldwide.
The Chinese government is pushing for more scientific and technological innovation in schools and universities to support economic growth.
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DeepSeek, based in Hangzhou, has impressed Silicon Valley experts, with its AI models DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 said to rival those from OpenAI and Meta.
Shenzhen University in Guangdong province announced a new AI course focused on DeepSeek. The course will cover key AI technologies, as well as important topics like security, privacy, and ethics.
“Having others follow your innovation gives a great sense of accomplishment,” Liang said in July.
“In fact, open source is more of a cultural behaviour than a commercial one, and contributing to it earns us respect” he added.
The announcement followed DeepSeek on Tuesday introduce of a new algorithm, Native Sparse Attention (NSA), aimed at improving efficiency in long-context training and inference.