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DeepSeek being used to design new Chinese warplanes, leading engineer says

  • Wang Yongqing, lead designer at the state-run Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute, revealed in early 2025 that his team uses DeepSeek AI to develop China’s advanced warplanes.
  • This adoption builds on DeepSeek’s open-source strategy amid China’s drive to become a global AI leader through a vast industrial open-source ecosystem.
  • DeepSeek supports research by automating review tasks and focuses on solving practical aerospace problems, while also gaining traction in industries like automotive and legal sectors.
  • In March 2025, DeepSeek released the R2 model, which is 97.3 percent cheaper than OpenAI’s GPT-4o and uses a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture for improved performance.
  • China’s evolving AI governance, including new cybersecurity and copyright regulations, signals stricter oversight on open-source AI models amid growing legal and security challenges.
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South China Morning Post broke the news in Hong Kong on Saturday, May 3, 2025.
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