China’s chip firms embrace DeepSeek in AI self-sufficiency drive

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 Tuesday that it would “pay tribute to DeepSeek” by “using locally-made GPUs to set China’s AI ecosystem on fire”.