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…
DeepSeek has given China’s artificial intelligence (AI) push a shot in the arm, as the country’s chip developers and cloud service providers rush to support the start-up’s increasingly popular models. Moore Threads Technology, a graphics processing unit (GPU) design company created by former Nvidia China general manager Zhang Jianzhong, said in a WeChat post on…
The cloud-computing unit of Huawei Technologies has worked overtime with a local company during the Lunar New Year holidays to make DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) models available to end users on its platform in an efficient and affordable way. Huawei’s cloud unit teamed up with Beijing-based AI infrastructure start-up SiliconFlow to make DeepSeek’s large language…
Zhipu AI, one of China’s top generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) start-ups, has announced the initial closing of its venture capital vehicle, which aims to invest in related start-ups to strengthen the company’s ecosystem, borrowing a page from ChatGPT owner OpenAI. The Zhipu Ecosystem Fund, also known as the Z Fund, raised 1.5 billion yuan (US$211…