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Bloomberg's China Show spent the bulk of its August 3 broadcast on DeepSeek's V4-Flash upgrade and whether Alibaba's new models can actually match Anthropic and OpenAI. Micah Hill-Smith's ranking of US and Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) models and the panel's discussion made clear this is not a small product update, it's a technology push that rattled Asian markets and sent the yen into the headlines after Tokyo confirmed coordinated intervention with Washington. For investors, it's a reminder that the AI race now has a distinct geopolitical and monetary angle, and capability claims can rip through valuations almost as fast as press releases.