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published: 4.02.2025

The geopolitics of artificial intelligence after DeepSeek

Alicia Garcia Herrero

Michal Krystyanczuk

In this short piece, Bruegel Senior Fellow Alicia García-Herrero and Data Scientist Michal Krystyanczuk elaborates on why DeepSeek’s emergence points to a split into competing US and Chinese AI worlds, making for a tough choice for Europe.

 

About authors

Alicia Garcia Herrero

Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at Natixis, Senior Fellow at Bruegel, Non-resident Senior Follow at the East Asian Institute, Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Economist specialized in monetary and financial issues in emerging markets, banking crises and resolution strategies, financial development

Michal Krystyanczuk

Data Scientist at Bruegel

Specialist in Deep Learning and Big Data techniques for various AI tasks