SDAIA, NVIDIA Presidents Discuss Computing Power Infrastructure in Saudi Arabia

President of the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA)met on Sunday with Founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA in Riyadh - SPA
President of the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA)met on Sunday with Founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA in Riyadh - SPA
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SDAIA, NVIDIA Presidents Discuss Computing Power Infrastructure in Saudi Arabia

President of the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA)met on Sunday with Founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA in Riyadh - SPA
President of the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA)met on Sunday with Founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA in Riyadh - SPA

President of the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) Dr. Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi welcomed on Sunday the Founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, at the authority’s headquarters in Riyadh.
During the meeting, Alghamdi and Huang discussed areas of mutual cooperation between SDAIA and NVIDIA, particularly in technological projects and exchange of expertise in the fields of data and artificial intelligence.
They also explored the latest developments in data and AI worldwide and highlighted NVIDIA's participation in the Global Smart City Forum (GSCF 2024) organized by SDAIA in Riyadh on February 12 and 13, SPA reported.
The meeting reflects ongoing cooperation between SDAIA and NVIDIA, especially in launching a multi-year program to establish a high-performance supercomputing platform in the Kingdom.
The platform will contribute to the development of various AI-supported applications in language technology and computer vision, helping to achieve the aspirations of AI adoption in the Kingdom.



China’s DeepSeek Frenzy Enters the Home as TV, Vacuum Cleaner Makers Adopt Its AI Models 

The DeepSeek logo is seen in this illustration taken Jan. 27, 2025. (Reuters)
The DeepSeek logo is seen in this illustration taken Jan. 27, 2025. (Reuters)
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China’s DeepSeek Frenzy Enters the Home as TV, Vacuum Cleaner Makers Adopt Its AI Models 

The DeepSeek logo is seen in this illustration taken Jan. 27, 2025. (Reuters)
The DeepSeek logo is seen in this illustration taken Jan. 27, 2025. (Reuters)

China's joyful embrace of DeepSeek has gone one step deeper - extending to TVs, fridges and robot vacuum cleaners with a slew of home appliance brands announcing that their products will feature the startup's artificial intelligence models.

Hangzhou-based DeepSeek's large language models upended the AI sector this year, rivalling Western systems in performance but at a much lower cost. That's resulted in much pride and glee in China, with DeepSeek held up as proof that US efforts to contain tech advances in China will ultimately fail.

DeepSeek's founder Liang Wenfeng has been feted by Chinese authorities, and the company plans to release R2, the successor to its R1 reasoning model, soon, sources have said.

Over the past two weeks, home appliance manufacturers such as Haier, Hisense and TCL Electronics have joined automakers and tech heavyweights like Huawei and Tencent in saying they will be using DeepSeek's models.

Many of these home goods are already smart devices that respond to voice-activated commands. But DeepSeek's models will allow for far greater precision.

Liu Xingliang, a Beijing-based independent industry analyst, said that a robotic vacuum cleaner, could, for example, leverage the semantic parsing capabilities of DeepSeek-R1 to position itself and avoid obstacles with more speed and sophistication.

"The device will be able to comprehend complex instructions such as 'Gently wax the wooden floor in the master bedroom but avoid the Legos'," said Liu.