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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Anthony Cuthbertson

China’s DeepSeek is building its own AI chip to end US reliance

The Deepseek AI application on a smartphone screen next to the ChatGPT chat logo on a laptop screen, pictured on 1 April, 2025, in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany - (AFP/Getty)

DeepSeek, one of China’s leading AI startups, is developing its own artificial intelligence chip to reduce reliance on US firms, according to reports.

The ChatGPT rival is designing the chip for inference – the stage of AI computing in which ⁠a trained model generates responses for users – rather than for training new models, Reuters reported.

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