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DeepSeek Takes Over Hong Kong in ChatGPT’s Absence

The DeepSeek chatbot and app have quickly become Hong Kong’s favorite AI option.

Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our revamped daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Newley Purnell reports from Hong Kong on DeepSeek’s quick ascension in one of the world’s most important financial centers.

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