All primary and secondary schools in Beijing will take courses on artificial intelligence during the year, the official New China news agency reported today.

The TN industry in China attracted the interest of the international community this year after Deepseek launched a new version of its interactive robot (Chatbox) that operates with artificial intelligence in January, causing turmoil in international markets.

Deepseek impressed industry experts because of its apparent ability to compete or even overcome the potential of its western competitors, such as Chatgpt, for less costs.

The schools in the Chinese capital will schedule at least 8 hours of artificial intelligence by school year from the semester that will begin in early September, New China said.

Schools can organize them as independent courses or integrate them into issues such as IT technologies or sciences.

“Innovative educational methods will be introduced, by using TN partners, assistants in research of TN and other smart factors to facilitate learning through human-machine dialogue“, According to a press release of the Beijing Municipal Education Committee.

Beijing also foresees to further explore the possibilities of cooperation between universities and secondary schools in order to cultivate talents in TN, he said.

This includes the development of a series of “advanced educational courses in TN that will focus on the early development of excellent, innovative talents”.

Last month, President Xi Jinping met with Chinese technology tycoons, a rare event that caused a wave of optimism about the possibility of strong support in the field.

Deepseek software was warmly welcomed by the authorities and its founder had also attended the meeting with SI.

All eyes are now focused on new Chinese artificial intelligence assistants, hoping that they can compete with Deepseek.

The Chinese technological giant Alibaba revealed last week an TN model called QWQ-32B, which, according to the company, has “comparable yields” to those of Deepseek, using much less data to work.

In addition, Manus, a new strong TN assistant, causes a sense in the country, with capabilities that are generally considered more sophisticated than a chatbot.