1.Entering the Middle East
In the context of increasingly fierce global AI competition, DeepSeek, as an innovative AI company, has not only gained success at home, but also successfully entered the international market by virtue of its advantages in technology research and development and market expansion, which has become a “business card” of China’s AI overseas.
Recently, there is news that DeepSeek is strengthening its global layout and entering the Middle East market. These two days in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh LEAP 2025 Science and Technology Conference event, the Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology announced that it would spend $10.9 billion in funding for the construction of AI infrastructure. At the same time, it was announced at the conference that Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s Aramco Digital Data Center in Dammam, Saudi Arabia will soon officially begin operations, meaning that China’s AI overseas is taking another step forward.
DeepSeek to Operate Data Center in Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Of the data center, Tarek Amin, CEO of Saudi Aramco Digital, noted that the data is stored locally and is not transferred anywhere once used. As for DeepSeek, he also gave high marks, stating, “We predict that the world needs to reason and run AI models correctly, especially DeepSeek.”
It is understood that DeepSeek has now launched its official app on the Apple App Store. With its advanced model DeepSeek V3, the Chinese AI company has provided users in many countries and regions around the world with a new intelligent experience, and is seen by many as a free version of the free alternatives to paid AI apps such as ChatGPT. It is foreseeable that DeepSeek will continue to expand its territory in the global market to serve users in more countries and regions in the future.
2.Global Rampage
Looking back to this Spring Festival holiday, the emergence of DeepSeek can be said to have shaken the world.
On the one hand, DeepSeek is considered to have the same experience as ChatGPT, the world’s top AI product, and is a completely free and open source product, which attracted the attention of a large number of ordinary users, and the global downloads climbed higher and higher, and topped the free list of the Apple App Store.
On the other hand, DeepSeek has the international leading performance level at the same time, the research and development cost is less than one-tenth of OpenAI, causing the global capital market attention and the U.S. science and technology stock market quake. a-share Xinchuang, software plate soared, the U.S. science and technology stocks were hit by the impact of the big stock prices, down more than 6%, of which the market value of global AI chip leader Nvidia evaporated more than 4 trillion The market value of Nvidia, the global AI chip leader, has evaporated more than 4 trillion yuan.
NVIDIA shares plummet
DeepSeek’s success has sparked a global buzz. Feng Ji, developer of the domestic 3A game Black Myth: Goku, said bluntly on Weibo, “DeepSeek, could be a national luck-level technological achievement.” Meta co-founder Soumith Chintala lamented on the social media platform X: “DeepSeek is now rewriting history.” On Reddit, the “overseas version of the bar”, many users excitedly said, “DeepSeek is open source. Basically, they’re making their knowledge freely available to the world, making sure no one can really monopolize it.”
From a more macro perspective, DeepSeek’s success also brings new opportunities for Chinese AI to go overseas. It has enhanced the international market’s recognition of China’s AI by promoting its technology globally, providing a model and more business opportunities for Chinese AI companies and chip companies to enter the global market. We look forward to seeing more domestic AI products shine on the global stage in the future and break into their own sky.