DeepSeek Is Building Its Own Claude Code. Beijing Wants the Whole Stack
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DeepSeek is actively building its own Claude code, a crucial tool for developers to run AI coding agents. Beijing's AI lab already powers coding agents globally, and now it seeks to own the entire development stack. This move could significantly increase its control over the AI development ecosystem, potentially disrupting the global market for AI tools and services.
The Chinese AI lab already powers coding agents worldwide. Now it wants to own the tool developers use to run them.