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K'ONYANGO: Africa can harness China’s DeepSeek to leapfrog into AI future

Instead of relying on costly interface from Silicon Valley, developers can customise open source models like DeepSeek

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by ONYANGO K'ONYANGO

Siasa25 May 2025 - 10:00
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The recent release of DeepSeek, an open-source large language model developed in China, has sparked global interest not just for its technological sophistication, but also for what it represents: the accelerating democratisation of Artificial Intelligence.

For Africa, a continent often seen as a late adopter in the tech space, DeepSeek and its peers offer a unique window to leapfrog into the AI era not as passive consumers, but as active developers and shapers of this transformative technology.

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