Alibaba offers DeepSeek on cloud service after Microsoft, Amazon and Huawei

Name: Chinese AI disrupter DeepSeek claims top spot in US App Store, dethroning ChatGPT
Uploaded: 2025-02-03T12:24:14.000Z
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Description: Chinese AI disrupter DeepSeek claims top spot in US App Store, dethroning ChatGPT

Alibaba Cloud users can log into its PAI Model Gallery, where DeepSeek’s latest models and ‘distilled’ versions of these products are found

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Coco Fengin Guangdong

Published: 8:24pm, 3 Feb 2025

Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud-computing services unit on Monday made available DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) models on its platform, following moves by other Big Tech companies to bring the Chinese start-up’s open-source systems to their clients.

“On [our] platform, users can achieve the whole process from training to deployment to inference with zero coding,” Alibaba Cloud said in a statement posted on WeChat. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.

It said the platform simplifies the model-development process, “bringing developers and enterprise users a faster, more efficient and more convenient AI development and application experience”.

Alibaba Cloud users can log into its PAI Model Gallery – a collection of open-source large language models (LLMs) – where they can select DeepSeek’s AI models and deploy them to power their own reasoning and text-generating applications, according to the statement.

The gallery contains the Hangzhou-based start-up’s most advanced AI models, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, touted as having been developed at a fraction of the cost and computing power typically spent by major AI tech companies to build LLMs. It also provides so-called distilled versions of those models, such as DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B.

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Chinese AI disrupter DeepSeek claims top spot in US App Store, dethroning ChatGPT

LLMs are the technology behind generative AI services like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Open source gives public access to a software program’s source code, allowing third-party developers to modify or share its design, fix broken links or scale up its capabilities.