Business leaders are reacting to DeepSeek's rise, which sent US tech stocks tumbling.Intel's former CEO said DeepSeek would expand the AI market instead of diminishing it.Meta promised a new "leading state of the art" AI model and pledged more investment.
The biggest figures in artificial intelligence sparred over the dangers of the rapidly advancing technology at the World Economic Forum this week, as hype swirled around a $500bn AI infrastructure project touted by Donald Trump.
AI dominated talk at Davos 2025 as the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, with its theme of collaboration in the intelligent age, took over the Swiss ski resort, and none more so than the chatter about China’s DeepSeek.
The fallout from the seemingly overnight surge in interest around DeepSeek was swift, and severe: The company’s AI model, which it claims to have developed
Meta’s Chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has given his assessment about the success that DeepSeek is enjoying in the artificial intelligence industry. According to LeCun, the biggest point to note in its rise is its vision to keep AI models open source so that everybody can benefit from it.
Europe should take greater risks and plough more money into artificial intelligence, Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told AFP at the World Economic Forum.
Global leaders from across business, philanthropy, and policy convened during the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos for a high-level ses..