DeepSeek narrows China-US AI gap to three months, 01.AI founder Lee Kai-fu says

China has narrowed the AI development gap with the United States to just three months in some areas, because firms such as DeepSeek have worked out how to use chips and apply algorithms more efficiently, the CEO of Chinese startup 01.AI Lee Kai-fu said.

Lee, a prominent figure in the global artificial intelligence space and a former head of Google China, told Reuters that startup DeepSeek revealed that China had pulled ahead in areas such as infrastructure software engineering.

DeepSeek shook the global AI industry when it launched an AI reasoning…