Scale AI CEO says China has quickly caught the U.S. with the DeepSeek open-source model

CNBC January 23, 2025
Hayden Field

Key Points

– Alexandr Wang, whose company Scale AI provides training data to key artificial intelligence players including OpenAI, Google and Meta, said Thursday that the AI race between the U.S. and China is an “AI war.”

– Wang said DeepSeek, the leading Chinese AI lab, released an “earth-shattering model” on Christmas Day.

– Wang said he believes that it’ll take within two to four years to reach artificial general intelligence, or AGI, an oft-debated term and benchmark within the AI sector.

The U.S. may have led China in the artificial intelligence race for the past decade, according to Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, but on Christmas Day, everything changed.

Wang, whose company provides training data to key AI...

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