Silicon Valley is coming to grips this week with the realization that creating an advanced artificial intelligence model may no longer be as specialized a task as was once believed.

Those who have had professional dealings with DeepSeek say he is obsessed with human-like artificial general intelligence ( AGI) and the impact it could have on the world. In his pursuit of it, DeepSeek’s founder is upending ideas about technological progress both in the West and China.

DeepSeek, with its highly innovative open source model that claims to cut AI training cost to a fraction of what is incurred by US companies, challenges the American dominance in AI