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DeepSpec
DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSpec, the machinery for training the draft models that make big LLMs answer faster — bundling DSpark, the drafter running in its own V4 service, which it clocks at 60-85% faster generation, with identical output.
Passports to the firm
Beijing now requires government sign-off before top engineers at DeepSeek, Alibaba and other private AI firms can travel abroad — a control built for nuclear scientists, pointed for the first time at people who train chatbots.
China's diffusion bet
A JPMorgan report argues the US still owns the frontier while China races to embed AI everywhere first — and that China's famous price advantage largely evaporates once you control for quality.
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