US bans DeepSeek from federal agencies, prompting angry response from China

I am, above all, surprised that China is exposing itself to such embarrassment in this instance. After all, it is their own stated strategy to avoid becoming dependent on foreign products, and I would be quite surprised if a US-developed open-weights model like Gemma were being used within their government administration.

Topic was discussed at length yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154244