China's top telecom operators adopt DeepSeek's AI model

China's three largest telecom operators have integrated DeepSeek's open-source large language model into their networks, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the country's top industry regulator, said on Saturday.

China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom have embedded DeepSeek's AI model across a range of applications and services, enhancing their capabilities with dedicated computing power solutions and tailored infrastructure to optimize the DeepSeek-R1 model, the ministry said.

The move follows a broader trend among the country's top tech firms, including Alibaba Group, Tencent Holdings and Baidu Inc, which have ramped up support for DeepSeek's latest AI models on their respective platforms.

Meanwhile, Huawei Technologies, which relied on its homegrown Ascend solution for chip and computing resources, also went live with DeepSeek's large models based on Huawei's cloud services.