"I think its probably the best work I've seen come out of China," Hassabis said at a Google-hosted event in Paris ahead of the AI Action Summit that is being hosted by the city.
The DeepMind CEO said the AI model shows that DeepSeek can do "extremely good engineering" and that it "changes things on a geopolitical scale."
However, from a technology point of view, Hassabis said it was not a big change.
"Despite the hype, there's no actual new scientific advance … it's using known techniques [in AI]," he said, adding that the hype around DeepSeek has been "exaggerated a little bit."
The real question to ask is what AI out there is reliable and will tell you the whole truth?