Alibaba offers DeepSeek on cloud service after Microsoft, Amazon and Huawei

Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud-computing services unit on Monday made available DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) models on its platform, following moves by other Big Tech companies to bring the Chinese start-up’s open-source systems to their clients.

“On [our] platform, users can achieve the whole process from training to deployment to inference with zero coding,” Alibaba Cloud said in a statement posted on WeChat. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.

It said the platform simplifies the model-development process, “bringing developers and enterprise users a faster, more efficient and more convenient AI development and application experience”.

Alibaba Cloud users can log into its PAI Model Gallery – a collection of open-source large language models (LLMs) – where they can select DeepSeek’s AI models and deploy them to power their own reasoning and text-generating applications, according to the statement.

The gallery contains the Hangzhou-based start-up’s most advanced AI models, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, touted as having been developed at a fraction of the cost and computing power typically spent by major AI tech companies to build LLMs. It also provides so-called distilled versions of those models, such as DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B.

LLMs are the technology behind generative AI services like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Open source gives public access to a software program’s source code, allowing third-party developers to modify or share its design, fix broken links or scale up its capabilities.

  

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