Dozens of Chinese hi-tech manufacturers – from Lenovo Group and Huawei Technologies to Inspur Group – are pushing new “all-in-one” servers that include DeepSeek’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models to private and public enterprises across the country, ramping up democratisation of the technology.
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According to a report on Thursday by state-owned investment bank China International Capital Corp (CICC), about 5 per cent of the country’s AI server demand will be generated from industries that produce sensitive information including government, finance, public services and healthcare. These sectors are expected to adopt the DeepSeek-powered AI machines, lifting total 2025 sales in the domestic AI server market to 54 billion yuan (US$7.4 billion).
More than 30 Chinese server manufacturers currently produce these boxes with embedded DeepSeek AI models, according to the CICC report. These include China’s largest server maker Inspur, second-ranked H3C Technologies, Huawei and Lenovo, the world’s top personal computer vendor.
These servers, equipped with AI chips, are designed to allow enterprises that lack certain technical resources to quickly deploy AI applications in their operations.
Apart from their easy set-up process, these new AI servers have become popular for being deployed at enterprises’ on-premise data centres, which satisfies a security requirement for sensitive data in certain industries, according to the CICC report.
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The rapid adoption of DeepSeek technology in the country’s server industry reflects how the Hangzhou-based start-up has made AI more accessible to enterprises across various industries.