70 years of AI. Ready for the revolution?

Just a few weeks into 2025, the newly elected president Donald Trump announced an investment of $500 billion to bolster the AI infrastructure in the US. Then, just days later, China, in a move now seen as a counterbalance to the West’s ambitious stride, unveiled DeepSeek, a ‘democratised’ AI platform that, experts say, is much more audacious in its scope and less expensive than its counterpart OpenAI, deemed the state-of-the-art model until then.