Chinese businesses rush to try DeepSeek AI at ‘unprecedented’ scale

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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.
“This is quite unprecedented,” Wei Sun, principal analyst of artificial intelligence at Counterpoint Research, said in an email Monday. She pointed to the rate of adoption, scale of business integration and breadth of specific industries covered.
A big factor in the widespread interest is timing, as well as DeepSeek’s open-source availability in China.

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