Sunny Cheung & Kai-shing Lau
DeepSeek’s founder, Liang Wenfeng, met Xi Jinping at a symposium in February. (Source: CCTV)
Executive Summary:
Military procurement documents show that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is adopting homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) systems like DeepSeek to accelerate its shift toward “intelligentized warfare.”
PLA experts describe DeepSeek not as a single product but as an evolving system architecture. They envision integrating this system across the PLA’s entire command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) chain.
Debate is ongoing as to DeepSeek’s utility for PLA purposes. Some powerful institutions back its deployment, while others remain sceptical.
Public security and policing are two areas also exploring the use of DeepSeek, especially for enhancing surveillance and data analysis, as well as for assisting with report writing and other processes.
The model’s success is framed as both a technological breakthrough and a political achievement in “algorithmic sovereignty.”
On October 21, the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek (深度求索) announced the release of a new tool to converts large text datasets into compact image-based formats: DeepSeek-OCR (DeepSeek, October 21). While not the long-awaited R2 large language model (LLM), the firm’s latest release shows that it is continuing to innovate, even as it moves deeper into the orbit of the Party-state. DeepSeek’s success, however, has brought it to the attention of not just the government in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), but also the military.
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