New Delhi, Jan. 28 -- On January 24, Perplexity released an assistant for Android phones. On January 23, Open AI previewed the Operator AI agent that can "go to the web to perform tasks for you". On January 24 , Meta said its AI ambitions include a massive data centre. The same day, Google said Gemini can now control a smart home.

Individually, each is a significant leap in AI; together, it is even more.

Except, something else happened on January 20, that overshadowed all these. China's relatively unknown DeepSeek launched a new generation of AI models that compete with the ones developed by US Big Tech, but at a fraction of the cost.

Suddenly, everyone is talking only about DeepSeek, whose launches also highlight that US sanctions mea...