{"id":22967,"date":"2026-07-09T09:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/why-chinese-ai-labs-like-deepseek-and-zhipu-are-looking-beyond-models-to-chips\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:29:44","slug":"why-chinese-ai-labs-like-deepseek-and-zhipu-are-looking-beyond-models-to-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/why-chinese-ai-labs-like-deepseek-and-zhipu-are-looking-beyond-models-to-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek and Zhipu are looking beyond models to chips"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chinese AI labs are increasingly pursuing proprietary chips, mirroring a global trend towards software-hardware integration, but industry insiders and analysts warn that the strategy carries risk due to the massive upfront investments required.<\/p>\n

“The core motivation for choosing in-house chips lies in pursuing [greater] hardware-software synergy and lowering long-term operating costs,” said Arisa Liu, chief director and research fellow at Taiwan Industry Economics Services.<\/p>\n

Paul Triolo, a partner and technology policy lead at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, said in his personal newsletter AIStackDecrypted that the proprietary efforts underscored how China’s leading model developers increasingly viewed silicon as a strategic extension of the model stack rather than simply another infrastructure input.<\/p>\n

DeepSeek has been quietly hiring chip-design talent without posting public job openings, according to two people familiar with the situation, who declined to be named as the matter was private.<\/p>\n

The Hangzhou-based start-up’s plans for a customised AI inference chip began roughly a year ago and remained at an early stage, according to a Reuters report on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Zhipu AI, the Beijing-based developer of the high-performance GLM-5.2 model,<\/span> was in early talks with domestic chip-design companies about tailored AI processors amid a sharp increase in its daily token usage, The Information reported on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Chinese AI labs are increasingly pursuing proprietary chips, mirroring a global trend towards software-hardware integration, but industry insiders and analysts warn that the strategy carries risk due to the massive upfront investments required. “The core motivation for choosing in-house chips lies in pursuing [greater] hardware-software synergy and lowering long-term operating costs,” said Arisa Liu, chief…<\/p>\n

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