Deepseeks AI breakthrough ‘is the biggest shock to get out of china in 185 years’

On February 6, 2025By Littum

Deepseek May prove to be China’s most important technological contribution to the world for almost two centuries, according to a leading scientist.

Rao Yi, the President of Capital Medical University in Beijing, argued in a post on social media: “Deepseek is the biggest shock to human society coming out of China in science and technology in 185 years.

“It is not that China’s technological results in the past were unimportant, but that the real world reaction that was triggered by the out-of-the-blue Deeperek (was much stronger).”

Rao also referred to China’s defeat in the hands of the British in the first opium war in 1842, which ended China’s self -perceived leadership of the world and exposed how it had fallen behind in military technology.

Opena’s CEO Sam Altman admitted that it was an “impressive model, especially about what they are able to deliver for the award”.