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Bitkom survey: German companies hardly rely on Chinese AI models

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According to a Bitkom survey, German companies primarily use US AI models such as ChatGPT.
Chinese alternatives such as Deepseek or Qwen have so far hardly been used, although they are considered powerful and cost-effective.

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Bitkom is the digital association of the German information and telecommunications industry. The survey examines the spread of various AI models in German companies.

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German companies hardly use artificial intelligence (AI) models from China. Only two percent of companies use the Chinese model Deepseek, one percent uses Alibaba's Qwen, which is also Chinese, according to a survey by the digital association Bitkom. The most popular is the AI model from the US company OpenAI. 76 percent of AI-using companies use ChatGPT.

In second place is Microsoft Copilot with 35 percent, followed by Google's Gemini with 28 percent. AI from China is becoming increasingly more powerful and at the same time cheaper than providers from the US. According to the Bitkom survey, the use of all three US applications among German companies has nevertheless increased over the past year.

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