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Australian dollar reacts to China’s AI breakthrough, DeepThink
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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1/28/2025
To finance now, here’s Alan Kohler. The Australian dollar responds to China’s AI breakthrough, DeepThink.
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Well, the Australian share market hasn't got much of a tech sector, so despite the
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ructions over China gate-crashing America's AI party, the ASX was all about banks and
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resources as usual.
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Banks up, energy stocks down because of Donald Trump telling OPEC to bring down the price
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of oil, which immediately brought down the price of oil.
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Other commodities also fell because everyone's discombobulated about whether Mr Trump will
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do tariffs or not.
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The US share market fell and the NASDAQ fell a lot because of NVIDIA's trillion-dollar
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swan dive while the Shanghai market was closed for Chinese New Year.
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Now, here's the US S&P 500 and the Shanghai Index since the start of last year.
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And obviously the American market is well ahead because of all the excitement about
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AI, although there was a big rise in the Shanghai market in September.
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So I asked DeepSeek why that happened, and it didn't know.
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It just offered a few possible theories.
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Then I asked ChatGPT the same question, and it did know.
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It was Chinese government stimulus measures.
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Maybe you get what you pay for.
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But it's not surprising that China is catching up on AI and technology in general.
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China produces more STEM graduates, that is science, technology, engineering and mathematics,
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per year than the rest of the world combined.
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Having China come and do to AI what it's done to the car industry would be causing sleepless
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nights in Silicon Valley because the stakes are so high.
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$250 billion a year is now being spent on AI.
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That's 58 times Australia's total spending on all research and development.
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The Aussie dollar eased slightly against the US dollar and was steady against everything
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else.
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And that's finance.
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