Hong Kong launches DeepSeek-based AI model designed to run on domestic chips

The Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Centre (HKGAI) has officially launched a new DeepSeek-based large language model that can run on domestic chips, as the government-backed lab seeks to commercialise its products and export Chinese AI overseas. The HKGAI-V3 model, built on DeepSeek V4, has achieved “significant improvements” in efficiency and agentic capabilities, the centre said on Wednesday. The home-grown model delivered over tenfold improvement in the efficiency of token...

By Xinmei Shen