China's joyful embrace of DeepSeek has gone one step deeper—extending to TVs, fridges, and robot vacuum cleaners, with a slew of home appliance brands announcing that their products will feature the startup's artificial intelligence models. Over the past two weeks, home appliance manufacturers such as Haier, Hisense, and TCL Electronics have joined automakers and tech heavyweights like Huawei and Tencent in saying they will be using DeepSeek's models. However, the company plans to release a new model, R2, soon, promising further advancements.
China's joyful embrace of DeepSeek has gone one step deeper—extending to TVs, fridges, and robot vacuum cleaners, with a slew of home appliance brands announcing that their products will feature the startup's artificial intelligence models. Over the past two weeks, home appliance manufacturers such as Haier, Hisense, and TCL Electronics have joined automakers and tech heavyweights like Huawei and Tencent in saying they will be using DeepSeek's models. However, the company plans to release a new model, R2, soon, promising further advancements.