Tesla will use a new powerful weapon in the AI ​​race

Tesla Inc. will associate with Ai Darlings Deepseek and Doubao de Bytedance Ltd. On new tools in its cars in China, according to a document downloaded from the official website of Tesla.

Bloomberg reports that Doubao will work on tools related to vocal controls such as temperature in a Tesla, navigation and entertainment by car, while Deepseek will manage the IA side of things.

This decision could be a way for Tesla to increase its Chinese deliveries, which dropped from 8.4% from December to June compared to the same period last year.

Deepseek is currently used in several Chinese rivals from Tesla, including Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. and YD co.

The representatives of Tesla and Bytedance did not respond to requests for comments.

The AI ​​race for domination heats up

The race for Chinese buyers said that companies not based in the country, such as BMW and Tesla, had to find new ways to try drivers with more technology.

This led them to INK agreements with local suppliers such as Deepseek and Alibaba, who joined BMW to offer his large Qwen language model in cars. Deepseek’s most recent AI model has also asked market observers and to note.

“While many recognize the achievements of Deepseek, this represents only the start of the innovation wave of Chinese AI,” said Louis Liang, an investor of the AI ​​sector at Ameba Capital, in Bloomberg. “We are witnessing the advent of AI mass adoption, this goes beyond national competition.”

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This can be good news for many AI enthusiasts who have been seduced by the exit by Deepseek of his V3.1 model earlier this week, a beginning that showed a surprising amount of power and varies from Chinese society compared to Western competitors.

“Deepseek v3.1 marks 71.6% on help – No, the seizure of Sota,” tweeted the researcher from Ai Andrew Christianson at the time, adding that he was “1% more than Claude Opus 4 while being 68 times cheaper”. This speed corresponded to the performance levels previously reserved for the most expensive proprietary systems, raising Deepseek in a whole new level of prestige.

In the United States, Tesla cars are currently using an AI model created by XAI nicknamed Grok. Bloomberg theorizes that the deployment of Grok in China has struck legal obstacles abroad, which are probably a slowdown for the ambitions of the CEO Elon Musk in the AI ​​race.