Maybe China Will Win? After DeepSeek’s low-cost, open-source AI model shocked the world a few months ago, one of the Chinese startup’s big rivals at home, Alibaba, apparently went all out to try to catch up: The company’s lead engineers asked their staff to cancel their vacations and plans for the Lunar New Year. “Our engineering leads decided—they said, ‘Cancel your Chinese New Year holiday. Everybody stay in the company. Sleep in the office. We are going to accelerate our development,’” Alibaba Chair Joe Tsai recalled at a conference in Paris on Wednesday. “Within a few weeks, we launched our version.” He deemed their efforts “not bad.” Sure, Alibaba’s approach sounds brutal. But also nigh unbeatable? Imagine Microsoft telling everyone to skip Christmas. https://www.bloomberg.com.. #Only In China 🇨🇳 #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖