DeepSeek just changed the AI Game — but is Canada even playing?

February 25, 2025

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In this commentary published in The Globe and Mail, Joel Blit highlights that it is critical for Canada to focus on AI adoption and leverage the transformative technology in every Canadian sector, as Chinese AI startup DeepSeek aims to end monopoly of a few tech giants with open-AI revolution available at lower cost.

"With models such as DeepSeek-V3, the cost of developing AI-powered applications has never been lower. AI is now cheap, plentiful and fundamentally democratic. We must empower all Canadians to leverage AI so that it can be deployed in every sector, from health care to agriculture," writes Blit.

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