Google Downplays DeepSeek’s AI Threat, Defends Leadership in AI Development

Googles artificial intelligence division is not concerned about competition from Chinese AI developer DeepSeek, according to internal reassurances by its leadership, CNBC reports.

Google DeepMind’s CEO, Demis Hassabis, advised staff members that DeepSeek’s assertions on its artificial intelligence models were hyperbole and that the company’s stated training fees were much less than its real development spending. He also said DeepSeek could have depended on Western AI models and utilized…