On January 21, Bloomberg reported that Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, Google's AI subsidiary, stated at the Davos World Economic Forum that Chinese AI companies lag behind leading Western companies by about 6 months, while praising DeepSeek's model as 'impressive.' He pointed out that Chinese AI developers like DeepSeek have released multiple advanced models that perform on par with their U.S. counterparts in major benchmark tests, but have yet to prove their ability to achieve breakthroughs in cutting-edge technological areas.
