s Lenovo becomes the latest company to lend support to DeepSeek’s recent AI system, a top executive’s comments show how the Chinese startup’s innovative approach mirrors how the tech industry at large views the adoption of its models going forward.
In an interview with indianexpress.com Wednesday, Ivan Cheung, Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Asia Pacific, Lenovo (AP) said, “The innovation is good for the industry; the cost of the LLM model will drop significantly. I believe that, even for OpenAI, as they move to this latest generation, costs have already decreased substantially, and they will continue to fall in the future. This reduces both the cost and the time required for AI training, which I think is definitely good news. Smaller companies that cannot invest 100 million or 200 million can now join this journey”.
During an investor call with analysts last week after the third-quarter results announcement, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said DeepSeek “has had a very positive impact on Lenovo. It further proves … that we have been on the right path by deploying distilled small models for local devices.”
