India, Jan. 25 -- DeepSeek. The hottest release in generative AI reportedly exhibits incredible reasoning capabilities at a fraction of the cost of models like GPT. Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, has reacted to this advancement by comparing the artificial intelligence scene in the United States of America and China.

"To people who see the performance of DeepSeek and think: 'China is surpassing the US in AI.' You are reading this wrong. The correct reading is: 'Open source models are surpassing proprietary ones'," LeCun wrote.

"DeepSeek has profited from open research and open source (e.g. PyTorch and Llama from Meta). They came up with new ideas and built them on top of other people's work. Because their work is published and op...