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To: ggersh who wrote (211407)	2/18/2025 4:20:10 AM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By marcher Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217786

re <<Pandora's Box>> Team China giving away ai makes it inconvenient for Team USA, am guessing, but good for the rest of the planet, I surmise, as everyone can get in on the act I replace laptop perhaps once every three years, and do pass-me-downs for family members whilst the laptops still have useful life, but have been delinquent on the desktop Have ordered new desktop computer to replace my 2017 vintage iMac Pro, and am doing it the easy way, just ordering the baddest Apple with the mostest cores and memories and the crispest screens (2) of the highest tech - no idea what I need the 2 screens for, but 2 seem better than 1, and 8 seem overkill I aim to learn about AI, just for the heck of it, and maybe I can inspire the Jack by example It was unconscionable of Mr Sam Altman to even think about cornering AI and seek rent. Am glad Team China did the necessary.

To: ggersh who wrote (211407)	2/18/2025 4:51:49 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217786

Are the officialdoms at the local level also embracing Pandora's box ? scmp.com Chinese cities launch DeepSeek-driven services as local cadres jump on AI bandwagon Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities turn to tech to improve online portals while local officials study innovative AI start-up Yuanyue Dangin Beijingand Sylvie Zhuangin Beijing Published: 6:03pm, 17 Feb 2025 Updated: 8:57am, 18 Feb 2025 City governments across China have launched online services featuring DeepSeek and local officials have started studying the potential uses of the AI start-up, which has thrown down the challenge to US rivals such as OpenAI. Nanfang Daily, a Communist Party-affiliated newspaper in the southern province of Guangdong, reported on Sunday that senior officials in the city of Zhuhai had “watched reports on DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng” at a recent retreat. The newspaper said this reflected the local government’s “expectations and confidence” in the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up. Several cities in the province, including Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dongguan, have already integrated DeepSeek into their online government services. Guangzhou has started using DeepSeek’s R1 and V3 AI models in its public web portals to deliver services more efficiently, according to a report published by the city government’s social media account on Sunday. It said the city would use the technology to explain policies to the public, handle hotlines, take requests, improve internal workflows and manage city services. Meanwhile, Shenzhen, China’s tech hub, has become the first city in Guangdong to “fully implement the DeepSeek AI model across all government departments using a secure cloud platform”, according to state news agency Xinhua. This marked a “new level of smart government services in the city”, the news agency reported on Sunday. It added that the Shenzhen government held citywide training sessions last week to teach cadres to use DeepSeek on the cloud platform. Nanfang Daily quoted AI researcher Hu Guoqing of the Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School as saying the technology would improve local government services. Does the arrival of China’s low-cost DeepSeek mean the end of Nvidia’s chip dominance? In Zhengzhou, capital of the central province of Henan, senior city officials on Saturday attended a training session led by an AI expert from Beijing’s Tsinghua University, according to local media. At the training session, Zhengzhou’s top leader, Communist Party secretary An Wei, urged party members and officials to “deeply study and master the use of AI models such as DeepSeek, and make full use of AI to support decision-making, analysis and problem-solving”, the city’s official newspaper reported. An also urged officials to use AI to support the city’s “transformation and development”. Similar training sessions were held in the eastern city of Suzhou, near Shanghai, and the northeastern coastal city of Dalian. DeepSeek’s R1 model has also been integrated with the online government service systems of the eastern cities of Wuxi and Ganzhou as well as Hohhot, capital of Inner Mongolia autonomous region, according to local media reports. The Ganzhou municipal party committee said on social media that DeepSeek would “promote AI as an efficient assistant in government work”. DeepSeek, based in the eastern city of Hangzhou, has shocked Silicon Valley and the global tech industry with two groundbreaking AI models: the V3 large language model released in December and the R1 inference model launched last month. These models have performed on par with the leading chatbots developed by US tech giants such as OpenAI and Google, but with significantly lower training costs. However, DeepSeek’s growing popularity has led to censorship concerns and bans in several countries, including the US, Italy, Australia and South Korea. The start-up has earned the praise of senior Chinese officials at the national and provincial level. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Foreign Minister Wang Yi quoted some Chinese proverbs and literary passages, then suggested the audience seek help from DeepSeek to understand the difficult-to-translate phrases. Earlier this month, Guangdong provincial party chief Huang Kunming, also a member of the 24-member Politburo, praised DeepSeek for taking on American AI titans with “courage and vigour”. At a conference on February 6, Chen Gang, party secretary of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, urged the region to “accelerate the construction of a digital Guangxi” and said that “anything is possible in the AI era”, citing DeepSeek as an example.