Google’s AI lab CEO said DeepSeek is China’s ‘best work’ he’s seen so far but that it showed ‘no actual new scientific advance’

• DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis said DeepSeek’s new model is “impressive” but overhyped.
• Hassabis said it brought “no actual new scientific advance,” as firms like his race to develop AGI.
• He also said many of the techniques used by DeepSeek were pioneered by his team.

Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google’s DeepMind, said he’s impressed by DeepSeek’s new AI model but thinks the hype around the Chinese tech is exaggerated.

“I mean, just briefly, on DeepSeek, it’s an…