In a first, music composer Santhosh Narayanan admitted to using Chinese AI chat model DeepSeek to compose songs for his upcoming films which include Salman Khan's 'Sikandar' and Suriya's 'Retro'. Santhosh said DeepSeek reduced his stem export time by 60% on Reaper, a digital audio workstation. "So much more can be done and competition is great for creators," he wrote.