Hacker News with Generative AI: Competition

Show HN: Compete in casual mini-games (iOS app – free) (apple.com)
ink. is a casual collection of retro‑style mini‑games designed to help you unwind or indulge your competitive side.

Mobile Games, iOS, Casual Games, Competition

5 points by pompeii 3 days ago | 0 comments

Uber's CEO says no one wants to compete with Tesla or Elon Musk (fortune.com)

Uber, Tesla, Electric Vehicles, Business, Competition

9 points by smgit 4 days ago | 6 comments

Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry (ft.com)

Semiconductors, Technology, Arm, Business, Competition

44 points by fork-bomber 7 days ago | 20 comments

Microsoft Hit by French Antitrust Probe over Rivals' Bing Access (bloomberg.com)
Microsoft Corp. is under investigation from the French antitrust authority amid concerns the US tech giant is degrading the quality of results when smaller rivals pay to use Bing technology in their own search-engine products.

Antitrust, Microsoft, Search Engines, Competition, France

4 points by nabla9 10 days ago | 0 comments

Sky skimmers: The race to fly satellites at the lowest orbits yet (bbc.com)
High in the skies of Earth, a new space race is underway. Here, just above the boundary where space begins, companies are trying to create a new class of daring satellites.

Space Exploration, Satellites, Technology, Competition

116 points by RyanShook 11 days ago | 76 comments

Advice on getting a competitor as a potential co-founder (ycombinator.com)
I'm a solo founder of an e-commerce platform with some traction. I'm open to finding a co-founder and was recently introduced to another solo founder who is effectively a competitor, but with some more traction than me. We're considering joining forces as co-founders, but I have a few concerns:

Startups, Entrepreneurship, Co-Founders, Competition

11 points by aadebola 11 days ago | 5 comments

Hugging Face clones OpenAI's Deep Research in 24 hours (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, Hugging Face researchers released an open source AI research agent called "Open Deep Research," created by an in-house team as a challenge 24 hours after the launch of OpenAI's Deep Research feature, which can autonomously browse the web and create research reports.

Generative AI, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Competition

10 points by rbanffy 14 days ago | 3 comments

What DeepSeek Changes About AI Competition (justsecurity.org)
Just months ago, China seemed far behind the frontier AI advances being made in the United States. Two new models from DeepSeek have shattered that perception: Its V3 model matches GPT-4’s performance while reportedly using just a fraction of the training compute. Its R1 reasoning model—akin to OpenAI’s o1 introduced last September—appears to match OpenAI’s o1 at a fraction of the cost per token.

Artificial Intelligence, China, Competition

7 points by hkhn 17 days ago | 0 comments

Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter (theregister.com)
Any hope Intel may have had of challenging rivals Nvidia and AMD for a slice of the AI accelerator market dissolved on Thursday as yet another GPU architecture was scrapped.

AI, Hardware, Competition, Data Centers

7 points by pseudolus 17 days ago | 0 comments

DeepSeek's not the only Chinese LLM OpenAI have to worry about. Right, Alibaba? (theregister.com)
Analysis The speed and efficiency at which DeepSeek claims to be training large language models (LLMs) competitive with America's best has been a reality check for Silicon Valley. However, the startup isn't the only Chinese model builder the US has to worry about.

China, Artificial Intelligence, Competition

4 points by rntn 21 days ago | 0 comments

Interview with DeepSeek Founder: We're Done Following. It's Time to Lead (thechinaacademy.org)
Silicon Valley is reeling. A seismic shift in AI dominance is underway, and all eyes are on China. In January 2025, DeepSeek-R1—an open-source inference model from Chinese AI firm DeepSeek—sent shockwaves through the tech world by matching OpenAI’s top-tier performance at 1/30th the API cost, all while embracing full openness.

Artificial Intelligence, China, Open Source, Competition

126 points by oli5679 21 days ago | 59 comments

Tesla's Profit Fell Sharply Last Year (nytimes.com)
Tesla on Wednesday reported a sharp drop in profit for 2024 as rivals in China, Europe and the United States chipped away at its lead in the market for electric cars.

Tesla, Electric Vehicles, Profit, Competition, Automotive Industry

56 points by emschwartz 22 days ago | 15 comments

OpenAI says Chinese rivals using its work for their AI (bbc.com)
The maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI, has complained that rivals, including those in China, are using its work to make rapid advances in developing their own artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

Artificial Intelligence, China, OpenAI, Competition

10 points by cscurmudgeon 22 days ago | 5 comments

OpenAI says it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its model to train competitor (ft.com)

OpenAI, China, Generative AI, Competition

11 points by youngtaff 22 days ago | 3 comments

Europe's AI hopes rebound after DeepSeek success (politico.eu)
BRUSSELS — In just a week, Europe saw its artificial intelligence scene floundering in the face of American flexing, only to see it rebound with the rise of a Chinese rival.

Artificial Intelligence, Europe, Technology, Competition

4 points by JumpCrisscross 22 days ago | 1 comments

OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor (ft.com)

OpenAI, Competition, AI Ethics

747 points by timsuchanek 23 days ago | 1541 comments

Instagram deals reveal Meta is offering TikTok creators as much as $300k to post (businessinsider.com)
Instagram wants to be the first place creators go to post short-form videos.

Social Media, Business, TikTok, Instagram, Competition

85 points by belter 23 days ago | 104 comments

Bookshop.org is launching an eBook store to take on Amazon (theverge.com)
Local bookstores should benefit from ebooks, too, Bookshop.org thinks. Making that happen at scale will take a fight.

E-commerce, Books, Competition, Amazon

28 points by divbzero 23 days ago | 9 comments

Meta scrambling 'war rooms' of engineers to figure out DeepSeek's AI (fortune.com)
Meta is reportedly scrambling ‘war rooms’ of engineers to figure out how DeepSeek’s AI is beating everyone else at a fraction of the price

Meta, AI, Competition, Generative AI

27 points by zathan 23 days ago | 19 comments

DeepSeek Won't Sink U.S. AI Titans (wsj.com)
Necessity might be the mother of all invention, but sparking the mother of all selloffs seemed like a stretch.

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Technology, Competition

3 points by libpcap 24 days ago | 2 comments

Budget AI Model DeepSeek Overtakes ChatGPT on App Store (macrumors.com)
A new China-based AI chatbot challenger called DeepSeek has reached the number one position on Apple's App Store free charts in multiple countries, including the US, raising questions about Silicon Valley's perceived leadership in artificial intelligence development.

Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Mobile Apps, Competition

7 points by mcraiha 24 days ago | 1 comments

Google "We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI" (2023) (semianalysis.com)

Google, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Competition, Technology

95 points by shihab 25 days ago | 53 comments

The race for "AI Supremacy" is over – at least for now (garymarcus.substack.com)
The race for "AI Supremacy" is over, at least for now, and the U.S. didn't win.

Artificial Intelligence, Competition, United States

46 points by signa11 25 days ago | 39 comments

China's AI Earthquake: How DeepSeek's Surprise Model R1 Shook Silicon Valley (neuronad.com)
China’s AI Earthquake: How Deepseek’s Surprise Model R1 Shook Silicon Valley

China, Artificial Intelligence, Silicon Valley, Technology, Competition

7 points by imatrix 25 days ago | 5 comments

The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia (youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com)

Nvidia, Competition, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Technology

655 points by eigenvalue 26 days ago | 479 comments

Meta's Threads to Show Ads in US, Japan (bloomberg.com)
Meta Platforms Inc. will show advertising on social network Threads for the first time, opening up a new revenue stream for the company and increasing competition for Elon Musk’s X.

Social Media, Advertising, Meta, Competition

13 points by belter 27 days ago | 3 comments

Scale AI CEO says China caught the U.S. with the DeepSeek open-source model (cnbc.com)

Artificial Intelligence, China, Open Source, Business, Competition

5 points by belter 27 days ago | 0 comments

Meta GenAI org in panic mode (teamblind.com)
It started with deepseek v3, which rendered the Llama 4 already behind in benchmarks. Adding insult to injury was the "unknown Chinese company with 5..5 million training budget"

Generative AI, AI Companies, Competition

12 points by xnhbx 28 days ago | 1 comments

China’s EV growth: How a bet made decades ago is paying off big (cnn.com)

China, Automotive Industry, Economics, Competition, History

4 points by zfg 28 days ago | 0 comments

Meta GenAI team is in panic mode due to deepseek v3 (twitter.com)

Meta, Generative AI, Competition

11 points by cpt100 28 days ago | 3 comments