DeepSeek is generating unprecedented momentum for China’s efforts to reduce its reliance on the ecosystem of Nvidia, as domestic chip developers rush to tailor their products for the artificial intelligence (AI) start-up’s low-cost, high-performance models, according to corporate statements and local media reports. For years, China’s domestic chip developers have viewed Nvidia with admiration, as…
China’s three major telecoms operators have rushed to integrate DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) models into their services, as firms across the country jump on the bandwagon of the country’s hottest tech start-up. In a bid to “promote the universal application of latest AI technologies”, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom have integrated DeepSeek’s models…
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A Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chip designer, founded by a veteran of Nvidia’s mainland operations, has become a joint-stock company that paves the way for its initial public offering (IPO), even as the US continues to tighten tech restrictions. The capital base of Moore Threads Technology, a Beijing-based graphics processing unit (GPU) start-up, on October…