China - February 13, 2025 Global cloud service providers rush to embrace China's AI chatbot DeepSeek (Voice_over) China's tech start-up DeepSeek is shaking up the global tech scene with its namesake AI chatbot, which has become the fastest application in history to surpass 30 million daily active users. DeepSeek's V3 and R1 models are open source, cheap, and use a fraction of the power compared to other leading large language models. For these reasons, DeepSeek is gaining a strong and fast global following with both national and international cloud service providers racing to include DeepSeek on their platforms. (Sound_bite) Feng Qiang, Deputy general manager, the cloud computing division, China Unicom Digital Technology: "The open-source nature of DeepSeek brings a sea change to the entire AI industry. Our services have covered more than 300 (computing) nodes across major cities nationwide." (Sound_bite) Lin Binghuai, Chief research and development expert, China Telecom's Tianyi Cloud: "Our intelligent computing platform has partnered with 50 computing power providers and supports DeepSeek-R1 and V3 on multiple (computing) nodes across the country." (Voice_over) Meanwhile, China's national supercomputing network has also integrated DeepSeek's AI models into its platform, which boosts DeepSeek's access to even more users and software developers. (Sound_bite) Cao Zhennan, Deputy Director, National High-Performance Computer Engineering Technology Research Center: "On the first day of integrating DeepSeek into our platform, our traffic hit over a million. Right now, the entire supercomputing network is connected to various supercomputing and smart computing centers across over 20 cities in 14 provinces, providing robust platform support for DeepSeek's services." (Voice_over) According to the company, its DeepSeek-R1 model is on par with OpenAI's heavyweight ChatGPT in tasks like math, coding and natural language reasoning. Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, and Nvidia have all brought DeepSeek models to their cloud platforms, alongside those in China including Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba Cloud. [Restriction: No access Chinese mainland]