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Deepseek advances have sparked a national thrust in China to deploy its large language models everywhere, from hospitals to local governments, because Beijing seeks to consolidate its gains in generative artificial intelligence.
Since the start-up based in Hangzhou Shake the global markets With its R1 model at the end of January, there was the adoption of lightning of its technology in its country of origin, companies and public organizations throwing their weight behind the new National Champion of AI.
All the main cloud service providers, at least six car manufacturers, several local governments, a number of hospitals and a handful of public enterprises (public enterprises) have evolved to deploy Deepseek, with the change among traditionally conservative institutions, in particular the strike.
“Even if the [Chinese Communist] The party has long supported AI, Deepseek provided impetus to government services and public enterprises to deploy LLM, “said a SEE technology provider who did not want to be appointed. “Deepseek has changed everything. It started a national effort to advance Chinese AI, “they added.
The low cost of deployment of Deepseek models has contributed to rapid adoption. Adina Yakefu, an IA expert expert on the Hugging Face Automatic learning platform, said Deepseek had “deeply reshaped the industry landscape” after having “reduced obstacles to the development of the model and the application thanks to its open-source strategy, knowledge distillation techniques and profitable training solutions”.
Jilin University Hospital, in the east of the city of Changchun, has deployed a diagnostic tool that he claims can produce processing plans by consulting the hospital database, medical guidelines and the results of the efficiency of medicines. The Jinxin Women and Children’s hospital in southwest China said it had a tool for patients to follow their ovulation cycles, with testing results from the hospital patients to produce personalized fertility plans.
A doctor from a public hospital in Hubei province, in the center of China, said that the institution’s management had published a directive that Deepseek should be used as a third -party referee if two doctors have different opinions on the treatment of a patient.
There have been deployments in public hospitals in Chengdu, Hangzhou and Wuhan for less complex applications, such as digital nurses leading patients to the right consulting room or explaining complex medical reports.
Several initiates of the industry warned against taking all the announcements at its nominal value, while some companies were trying to grasp the enthusiasm of investors around Deepseek without significantly deploying its models. Meanwhile, government organizations are also under political pressure to be considered as aligned with the Chéri de l’IA Chinese.
The SEE Tech supplier said that “a lot of work must still be done to make these models useful” for a more complex work such as medical diagnosis. “It must be trained on enough medical data to produce good results. It will take time and will have to be collaboration with the main AI companies. This is not something that hospitals can rely alone, “they said.
Another doctor described a move to deploy Deepseek last week in an east hospital in Zhejiang as an “advertising stroke”.
Even if some announcements were to be treated with skepticism, experts say that the desire to test its models always marks a change of step.
“The rhythm to which Deepseek spreads is incredible. Previously, conservative institutions such as government agencies and hospitals were nervous at the idea of introducing AI generating applications, fearing problems if something is wrong, “said an IA engineer based in Hangzhou.
Local governments, including Jinan’s and Hangzhou, launched citizen chatbots built on Deepseek so that residents can ask questions about everything, tax payments and waste collection, including birth certificates. The Futian district of the city of Shenzhen launched several AI agents built on Deepseek models, including a tool for generation of documents so that law enforcement agents write administrative reports.
The public adoption of Deepseek Beijing feeds rapid adoption, with the founder of the start-up, Liang Wenfeng, invited to a meeting with President Xi Jinping this month, alongside business heavyweights Like the president of Byd Wang Chuanfu, the founder of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, and the founder of Alibaba Jack Ma.
Tencent announced it deployed in depth In the search function of its omnipresent application, WeChat. Byd and Great Wall Motor are among the car manufacturers who have deployed Deepseek. Meanwhile, many public companies, including Sinopec, Petrochina and China Southern Power Grid, have all said that they are deploying its technology.
Deepseek does not capitalize financially on its widespread use, according to people familiar with its Trade model. It allows its models to be downloaded for free and can be executed on the public cloud or private servers, making suppliers such as Alicloud and Huawei Cloud the main beneficiaries of the recent increase in adoption.
HSBC Frank’s technical equipment analyst, he wrote in an analyst note that Deepseek “The workloads of AI inference have increased, triggered by the growing popularity of Deepseek R1 in recent weeks”. He predicted that the request would continue and “trigger upgrades of related hardware and software in the cloud computing and IA infrastructure”.
Additional reports by Tina Hu in Beijing
