General Motors’ joint venture with China’s SAIC said on IndonesiaTuesday it has become the first among its peers that will “deeply” integrate DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence models with its information and entertainment in-car systems, hoping to provide its owners with more human-like and proactive services. Some Cadillac and Buick’s new models would be able to support DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model, SAIC-GM said in a statement, adding it has also incorporated the ERNIE Bot, the AI chatbot service developed by Chinese search giant Baidu, into its lineups. GM is not the only global automaker rushing to embrace the latest AI technologies from the Chinese startup. Smart, an electric vehicle brand jointly operated by Mercedes-Benz and China’s Geely, said on Monday DeepSeek’s models will soon be available to the owners of its smart #5 compact cars via over-the-air updates. Multiple Chinese automakers, including Geely and Dongfeng, have said some of their models will support the latest version of their home-grown AI startup. [TechNode reporting, SAIC-GM statement, in Chinese]
