After Sundar Pichai, Google DeepMind CEO praises DeepSeek but says “despite the hype, there’s no…”

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis praised Deepseek’s AI model as “probably the best work” from China, acknowledging its impressive engineering and geopolitical impact. However, he downplayed its technological significance, stating that the hype is a bit “exaggerated.”

Praising Deepseek’s model as “an impressive piece of work” at a Google-hosted event in Paris ahead of the AI Action Summit (via Business Insider) that is being hosted by the city, Hassabis said, “I think its probably the best work I’ve seen come out of China.”