New Delhi, Sept. 21 -- Huawei has launched a safety-centred version of the DeepSeek artificial intelligence model, claiming it is almost entirely effective at preventing politically sensitive discussions.

The model, dubbed DeepSeek-R1-Safe, was developed in partnership with Zhejiang University, a leading institution and the alma mater of DeepSeek's founder Liang Wenfeng. Huawei clarified that neither Liang nor DeepSeek were directly involved in the project.

According to a post on Huawei's official WeChat account, the company trained the system using 1,000 of its Ascend AI chips. The project builds on the open-source DeepSeek-R1 model, but adapts it to comply with Beijing's regulatory requirements that AI products reflect "socialist valu...