A renowned U.S. economist has hailed China's AI application, DeepSeek, as a groundbreaking success that is widely used across the globe, highlighting its ingenuity and global impact, during an interview with China Media Group (CMG) in Beijing on Wednesday.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, highlighted that he uses DeepSeek daily because of its ability to provide logical, factual answers and reliable references.
"Every day I ask questions to large language model systems. In particular, I use the DeepSeek reasoning model, so I can watch the logic of the answers that are given. I get lots of factual information. I can get references. I use DeepSeek. People all over the world use DeepSeek," said Prof. Sachs.
"And DeepSeek is certainly highly competitive and seemingly very ingenious system because it has been able to essentially, as they say, distill the very, very large models to be far more efficient. So, this is a big success for China, a big proof that the United States isn't alone in these technologies," said the economist.
Sachs noted that the U.S. government's measures against DeepSeek would ultimately harm its own economy.
"The U.S. can keep Chinese goods out of the U.S. market, [but] this will hurt consumers. On the whole, it will weaken the U.S. economy because the world is very complicated right now. It requires a lot of very serious analysis, and just having a viewpoint that's not based on data, experience and knowledge doesn't work. Unfortunately, I feel that this is how the U.S. government operates right now," he said.
US scholar hails DeepSeek as breakthrough in AI innovation
