DeepSeek may prove to be China’s most important technological contribution to the world in almost two centuries, according to a leading scientist.
Rao Yi, the president of Capital Medical University in Beijing, argued in a post on social media: “DeepSeek is the biggest shock to human society to come out of China in terms of science and technology in 185 years.
“It’s not that China’s technological achievements in the past were unimportant, but that the real-world reaction triggered by the out-of-the-blue DeepSeek [was much stronger].”
Rao also alluded to China’s defeat at the hands of the British in the first opium war in 1842, which ended China’s self-perceived leadership of the world and exposed how it had fallen behind in military technology.
OpenAI’s chief executive Sam Altman admitted it was an “impressive model, particularly around what they’re able to deliver for the price”.
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