According to media reports, the Foshan Artificial Intelligence Application Empowerment Center has successfully completed the deployment of DeepSeek, further enhancing the center's service capabilities in the field of artificial intelligence. According to the Foshan Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, this deployment relies on the technological strength of Guangdong Unicom, ensuring seamless adaptation of DeepSeek to domestic and mainstream computing architectures. The empowerment center supports the localized deployment of two fully functional models, DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3, leveraging strong technical capabilities.

On January 20, the city of Foshan, Guangdong held a release conference for the AI Application Mall for the mold industry and the establishment meeting for the AI Small Model Industry Consortium, marking an important step forward in Foshan's exploration of 'AI+' enabling new productive forces. AI small models refer to artificial intelligence models optimized and customized for specific industries or fields. These models have significant advantages, including low data requirements, low computational resource consumption, low training and optimization costs, and high privacy security. Chen Xinwen, Vice Mayor of Foshan, mentioned at the conference that Foshan relies on manufacturing.