India, Feb. 27 -- A slew of home appliance brands in China have announced they will be using DeepSeek's Artificial Intelligence (AI) models for their TVs, fridges and robot vacuum cleaners.

These include companies such as Haier, Hisense and TCL Electronics, along with even automakers and tech heavyweights like Huawei and Tencent, according to a report by news agency Reuters.

Many of these products are already smart devices which respond to voice-activated commands. However, DeepSeek's models will allow them to function with far greater precision.

A more specific example of the functions would be a robotic vacuum cleaner leveraging the semantic parsing capabilities of the DeepSeek-R1 model to position itself and avoid obstacles with mor...