By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Chinese dronemaker DJI said on Tuesday it filed suit challenging the Federal Communications Commission decision to bar imports of all of its new models and critical components.

Chinese companies are releasing new AI models and striving to gain an edge in the AI application race as the country's biggest holiday of the year nears.

Chinese AI models that are gaining adoption around the world are spreading Beijing-friendly narratives, two reports out this week suggest. The big picture: Models from firms like DeepSeek and Alibaba are making inroads globally,

The escalating rivalry between Chinese and US AI models has intensified, with Anthropic alleging that Chinese companies like Minimax and Moonshot AI are unlawfully extracting data from its AI, Claude.

The American startup is pitching investors on a $1 billion+ valuation to train a model over a trillion parameters, aiming to reclaim the open-weight lead from Chinese labs like Moonshot and DeepSeek.

By Steve Holland and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's latest AI model, set to be released as soon as next week, was trained on Nvidia's most advanced AI chip,