AMD CEO Lisa Su visits China, touting AI chip compatibility with DeepSeek, Alibaba models

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) CEO Lisa Su has begun her latest visit to China, where she touted the company’s role in supporting the artificial intelligence (AI) development of the country’s top industry players, including DeepSeek and Alibaba Group Holding.

AMD chips were compatible with DeepSeek’s AI models and Alibaba’s Qwen series, which had allowed the Chinese companies to develop their technologies faster, Su said at an AMD conference for AI personal computers in Beijing on Tuesday. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.

She noted that AMD had observed consistent growth in DeepSeek’s model performance with the team’s constant optimisation. Su – who was joined by representatives from Lenovo Group, Asus and Microsoft – emphasised AMD’s commitment to collaborating with the open-source community, as well as the company’s efforts to build an open and developer-friendly AI ecosystem.

The California-based semiconductor firm has been promoting its infrastructural support for DeepSeek’s low-cost, high-performance models since their recent launches grabbed headlines from Silicon Valley to Wall Street. AMD has posted instructions for running DeepSeek’s V3 and R1 open-source models locally on its Instinct graphics processing units.

AMD is considered Nvidia’s main competitor in the market for AI chips. While DeepSeek’s highly efficient models initially sparked fears of a plunge in AI chip demand, companies in China have continued to stock up on processors to support their AI development and cloud computing services.

  

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