Chinese businesses flock to support DeepSeek

Chinese businesses, from chipmakers to cloud service providers, are flocking to support DeepSeek's artificial intelligence (AI) model.

Moore Threads and Hygon Information Technology, AI chipmakers with ambitions to compete with Nvidia, said their computer clusters and accelerators can support DeepSeek's R1 and V3 models.

Chinese businesses flock to back DeepSeek's AI applications.

“We pay tribute to DeepSeek,” Moore Threads headlined the post on WeChat, adding that the progress of models using domestically produced graphics processing units (GPUs) could “explode” China’s AI industry.

Over the weekend, Huawei Technologies, which also has its own line of AI chips, partnered with AI infrastructure startup SiliconFlow to make DeepSeek models available to customers on cloud services. According to the company, their performance is comparable to models running on high-end global chips.

News that Huawei has integrated DeepSeek's samples with its Ascend chip marks a "significant moment" in China's AI industry, Bernstein analysts said.

"DeepSeek demonstrates that large language models (LLMs) can be implemented on Chinese chips, reducing dependence on advanced US hardware," Bernstein representatives said, citing Ascend and planned chips from Cambricon and Hygon.

Other major companies like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent are also moving to make DeepSeek's models accessible through services.

Last month, DeepSeek launched a free AI assistant that uses less data and costs a fraction of existing services. Within days, the app surpassed its U.S. rival ChatGPT in downloads from Apple's App Store, triggering a global tech sell-off.

DeepSeek previously attracted attention in global AI circles with a research paper in December 2024 that said training DeepSeek-V3 required less than $6 million in computing power from Nvidia's H800 chips, compared to the billions spent by tech giants like Meta and Microsoft.

China has welcomed DeepSeek's success, turning the Hangzhou-based startup and its founder, Liang Wenfeng, into pop culture celebrities.

US companies like Microsoft and Amazon have also begun offering DeepSeek models, but some countries like Italy and the Netherlands have blocked or are investigating DeepSeek's AI applications over privacy concerns.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/doanh-nghiep-trung-quoc-do-xo-ung-ho-deepseek-19225020516243244.htm