India, Feb. 10 -- The race for Artificial Intelligence (AI) dominance is reshaping the global digital order, with major players advancing rapidly while many in the Global South struggle to keep up. Recent developments highlight this widening gap-Yandex has unveiled YandexGPT, Alibaba has launched Qwen-2.5-Max, and DeepSeek, an ambitious newcomer, is disrupting the landscape with cutting-edge models. While Yandex and Alibaba build on strong infrastructure, DeepSeek is exploring new frontiers in AI reasoning and generative capabilities. However, these breakthroughs raise critical concerns about access, control, and the exclusion of emerging economies from this AI-driven transformation.

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