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Hong Kong launches HKGAI V1, a government-backed model fine-tuned from DeepSeek

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Source: Hong Kong Government (LegCo reply LCQ7)Also reported by The Standard (Hong Kong)

Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong unveiled HKGAI V1 on 25 February 2025, a large language model from the Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Center built by full-parameter fine-tuning of DeepSeek. The center, led by HKUST and set up in 2023 with AIR@InnoHK funding, has estimated R&D and operating costs of about HK$235 million. The government is integrating the model into HKPilot, a drafting and translation assistant piloted across bureaux since mid-2024, and planned a public chatbot, HKChat, in 2025.

Why it matters

Hong Kong’s government began building a locally tuned DeepSeek model into the drafting assistant its civil servants use.

When
25 Feb 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0132
Who
Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Center, HKUST, DeepSeek, Digital Policy Office (Hong Kong); Sun Dong, Guo Yike

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Hong Kong Government (LegCo reply LCQ7) and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Hong Kong Government (LegCo reply LCQ7)

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2025-0132: “Hong Kong launches HKGAI V1, a government-backed model fine-tuned from DeepSeek.” wheresthe.ai, 25 Feb 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/hk-hkgai-v1-deepseek-model-launch-2025-02/ (source: Hong Kong Government (LegCo reply LCQ7)).

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