Zhou Hongyi Urges Enterprise Sovereign AI Following DeepSeek Open-Source Release

People's Daily reported that DeepSeek announced the full open-sourcing of its internal artificial intelligence inference framework DeepInfer. 360 Group founder Zhou Hongyi framed this move as technical confidence and public-benefit sharing that points toward technological sovereignty in the artificial intelligence era, revealing that 360 has constructed a sovereign artificial intelligence operating system already deployed across selected government and enterprise units. DeepInfer enables processors and graphics cards to operate simultaneously through scheduling optimizations, cutting waiting periods and redundant calculations so the same hardware manages more workloads. Zhou noted that maturing open-source models and inference technologies allow organizations to deploy artificial intelligence on private servers without training models from scratch, helping them develop specialized agents. According to Zhou, the essence of sovereign artificial intelligence is ensuring that users maintain absolute dominance over the technology. He categorized this sovereignty across five explicit tiers: nations, institutions, enterprises, individuals and families, and devices. Zhou cautioned that many enterprises currently rely on rented models, compute, and external platforms, exposing them to vendor price hikes and service adjustments. He stated that sovereign artificial intelligence must resolve who controls computing power, models, and data, while securing ownership over the knowledge and operational experience accumulated by active agents.

The sovereign operating system built by 360 secures data inside enterprise networks, retains operational knowledge and execution logs for the business, and embeds security capabilities to audit tool usage and require human verification for critical tasks.