Image: Zhejiang UniversityHuawei has created a version of the artificial intelligence model DeepSeek that is deemed “safe” by the Chinese government’s standards. Huawei appears to have succeeded where DeepSeek failed by creating its equivalent with the Ascend 1000 chips. Huawei and Zhejiang University have open-sourced the model across multiple platforms, including GitHub, GitCode, ModelZoo, Gitee, and ModelScope. When DeepSeek released its powerful, low-cost R1 model, comparable to OpenAI’s o1, energy company stock prices plunged. US authorities embedded location-tracking devices in select shipments of servers containing high-performance AI chips in an effort to monitor potential diversions to China.