CNBC February 17, 2025
Key Points
– At France’s AI Action Summit, technology bosses told CNBC that the emergence of DeepSeek demonstrates that China can’t be counted out as a serious player when it comes to AI.
– Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, said DeepSeek’s low-cost AI model reinforces the idea that there is “very real competition with very real stakes.”
– Still, tech leaders largely agree that the threat DeepSeek poses to well-funded U.S. AI labs such as OpenAI remains limited for now.
The technological advances that Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek have displayed show the game is on when it comes to U.S.-Sino competition on AI, top tech executives told CNBC.
In a series of interviews at France’s Artificial Intelligence...
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