Eight automakers including BYD, at least nine financial securities companies, three state-owned telecommunications operators and smartphone brand Honor are among the many that have rushed to integrate with DeepSeek in the last week.

Rich language training data and a colourful cast of characters help power AI into the ‘era of Chinese’, experts say.

Just days after DeepSeek R1 made headlines, Moonshot AI introduced Kimi AI 1.5, a model already touted superior to OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet. This latest entrant shows advancements in multimodal reasoning, long-context understanding, and real-time data processing, raising questions about the future of AI dominance.

DeepSeek’s R1 model uses inference to generate output without needing high-power chips, making Chinese-produced chips a a viable option.

DeepSeeks artificial intelligence (AI) models are giving Chinese chipmakers like Huawei a competitive edge against U.S. processors, particularly in AI inference tasks. Unlike Nvidias powerful chips designed for training