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World Service,27 Jan 2025,26 mins

Chinese chatbot DeepSeek overtakes AI market

World Business Report

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The surge in popularity of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app DeepSeek has sparked a selloff of shares in major tech companies after it overtook rivals such as ChatGPT to become the top-rated free app on Apple's App Store. How will it affect the IT industry? Also, we look at the US and Colombia as countries appear to have entered into a tit-for-tat trade war. And the promise to electrify billions of homes across Sub-Saharan Africa at the ‘Mission 300’ conference being held in the Tanzanian Capital Dar Es Salaam. You can contact us on WhatsApp or send us a voicenote: +44 330 678 3033. We would love to hear from you!

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