January 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM ESTThe chips are down.Photographer: Fabrice Coffrini/AFPBreakthroughs in AI are so common these days it is hard to separate the truly important from the merely incidental. But one recent development is worth paying particular attention to: the appearance of DeepSeek-V3, a new large-language model from China. Its significance has as much to do with trade as with technology.I’ve played around with DeepSeek for several days, and it is one of the best LLMs of the dozens I ...