The president of Google Europe has insisted China is not ahead of the West on Artificial Intelligence, despite the surge of a new chatbot which has taken the world by storm.
DeepSeek, which recently became the most downloaded app in the US, sent shockwaves through the American stock market with the launch of the latest AI models – which it claims are better than its rivals and made at a fraction of the cost.
Tech commentators have said the development shows China is way ahead of the West on AI but Matt Brittin, who leads Google operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has denied that is the case.
"I don’t recognise that at all," he told ITV News, claiming Google’s own chatbot Gemini is "seeing similar or better improvements in performance" than DeepSeek.
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