# Architectural Choices in China's Open-Source AI Ecosystem: Building Beyond DeepSeek

DevFeed: [Architectural Choices in China's Open-Source AI Ecosystem: Building Beyond DeepSeek](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/architectural-choices-in-china-s-open-source-ai-ecosystem-building-beyond-deepseek-7251.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-2>)

Author: Adina Yakefu; Irene Solaiman

Published: 2026-01-27T15:01:45Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Mixture of Experts (MoE)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mixture-of-experts-moe.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal.md>), [Open Source Models & Datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source-models-datasets.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [model-deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-deployment.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [toolchains](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/toolchains.md>), [stable-diffusion](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/stable-diffusion.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [china](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/china.md>), [compute](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compute.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evaluation.md>), [mixture-of-experts-moe](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mixture-of-experts-moe.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [text-to-image](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/text-to-image.md>), [toolchains](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/toolchains.md>)

## AI overview

This second article in a three-part series examines architectural and hardware choices in China's open-source AI ecosystem after the DeepSeek Moment. It explains why Mixture-of-Experts architectures became widespread, emphasizing flexible compute allocation, sustainable cost-performance balance, deployment across varied hardware, and expansion into multimodal models, agents, datasets, evaluation, and toolchains.

## Source excerpt

This is the second blog in a three-part series on China's open source community's historical advancements since January 2025's "DeepSeek Moment." The first blog is available here, and the third blog is available here. In this second piece we turn our focus from models to the architectural and hardware choices Chinese companies have made as openness becomes the norm.