Since DeepSeek’s launch, a swathe of Chinese companies — from automakers to appliance firms — have joined the frenzy to incorporate the homegrown artificial intelligence model into their products and services. DeepSeek’s reasoning model, R1, and large language model, V3, have achieved performance levels comparable to those of leading Western competitors but at a much lower cost, the company has said. The rush to adopt DeepSeek by both the private and public sectors reflects a broader mindset in ...