{"id":986126,"date":"2026-01-17T11:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986126"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:41:05","slug":"google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-corrects-almost-everyone-in-america-on-chinas-ai-capability-they-are-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/17\/google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-corrects-almost-everyone-in-america-on-chinas-ai-capability-they-are-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis corrects &#8216;almost everyone&#8217; in America on China&#8217;s AI capability: They are not &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has now challenged the prevailing views in the US about China\u2019s artificial intelligence capabilities. Hassabis believes that Chinese AI models are now only \u2018a matter of months\u2019 behind Western systems. Speaking at CNBC\u2019s new podcast The Tech Download, Hassabis said China\u2019s progress has been underestimated, \u201cMaybe they\u2019re only a matter of months behind at this point,\u201d he noted, adding that just one or two years ago, many believed China was far further back. The comments made by the Google DeepMind CEO run counter to the widespread assumptions in Washington and Silicon Valley that China lags significantly behind in AI development.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence of China\u2019s progress in AI race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has now challenged the prevailing views in the US about China\u2019s artificial intelligence capabilities. Hassabis believes that Chinese AI models are now only \u2018a matter of months\u2019 behind Western systems. Speaking at CNBC\u2019s new podcast The Tech Download, Hassabis said China\u2019s progress has been underestimated, \u201cMaybe they\u2019re only a matter of months behind at this point,\u201d he noted, adding that just one or two years ago, many believed China was far further back. The comments made by the Google DeepMind CEO run counter to the widespread assumptions in Washington and Silicon Valley that China lags [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}