Google AI Chief says company has ‘all the ingredients’ to beat China’s DeepSeek

Google’s AI chief told employees that he’s not worried about China’s DeepSeek and said the search giant has superior artificial intelligence technology, according to audio of an all-hands meeting in Paris on Wednesday.

At the meeting, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai read aloud a question about DeepSeek, the Chinese start-up lab that roiled U.S. markets recently, when its app shot to the top of the Apple’s App Store, supplanting ChatGPT. DeepSeek released a research paper last month claiming its AI model was trained at a fraction of the cost of other leading models.

The question, which was an AI summary of submissions from employees, asked “what lessons and implications” Google can glean from DeepSeek’s success as the company trains future models.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis was called on to provide the answer.

“When you look into the details,” Hassabis said, some of DeepSeek’s claims are “exaggerated.”

Hassabis added that DeepSeek’s reported cost of its AI training was likely “only a tiny fraction” of the total cost of developing its systems. He said DeepSeek probably used a lot more hardware than it let on, and relied on western AI models.

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