Bollywood music producer reveals he used DeepSeek to compose songs for upcoming Salman Khan-film

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Almost a week after its launch, DeepSeek is making its mark in Bollywood. Now, if you’re wondering whether screenwriters are using the AI tool to write scripts—well, no screenwriter has admitted to it. However, a composer has used the new AI chat model from China to compose songs for an upcoming Salman Khan movie.

Composer Santhosh Narayanan in an X post has shared that he has used DeepSeek to compose music for Salman Khan-starrer Sikander as well as for Pooja Hedge-starrer Retro. Why did he use the tool? It helped him save a lot of time.

“DeepSeek has been so good for me personally for coding in Reaper so much so it has reduced my stem export time by well over 60% for #Retro and #Sikandar . Great times ahead for AI reasoning and GenAi . So much more can be done and competition is great for creators and users,” he wrote.

When a user joked about Narayanan endorsing DeepSeek, he responded, saying, “LOL, it has already cost Nvidia $500 billion. It doesn’t require my promotion.”

DeepSeek is an AI model from China that is becoming popular in the music world. The latest version, DeepSeek-R1, is as good as some of the best AI tools. It was created with a $6 million budget and uses powerful NVIDIA chips.