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Microsoft Highlights Growing AI Divide: UAE Leads, US Slips, And DeepSeek Expands Across Emerging Economies

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Technology company Microsoft released a new study examining global artificial intelligence usage trends, indicating that adoption continued to expand during the second half of 2025, rising by 1.2% compared with the first half of the year.  The report found that approximately one in six people worldwide are now using generative AI tools, reflecting rapid uptake for a technology that has only recently become widely available.  However, the finding…
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Quoted in today's edition of the British Financial Times, Brad Smith highlighted the rapid adoption of the technology of DeepSeek - a Chinese 'startup' of IA - in emerging markets such as Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, where the company's R1 model gained land thanks to its accessibility. "We have to recognize that China now has an open code model, benefiting from government subsidies that, in practice, enables it to sell under the cost of North American…

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Brad Smith said that the rapid adoption of the Chinese startup technology of IA DeepSeek in emerging markets such as Africa highlights the competition that American companies face in the world

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Metaverse Post broke the news in on Tuesday, January 13, 2026.
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