New Delhi, Jan. 30 -- The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI collaborated to create what they called 'Humanity's Last Exam,' a test stuffed with 3,000 PhD-level questions from mathematics, humanities and life sciences. A new Turing Test for the age of AI, only three models got scores close to 10%: OpenAI o1, Google's Gemini 2, and an unknown Chinese model called DeepSeek R1.

This Chinese model is far from unknown today. It has risen to the top spot on Apple's app store and single-handedly caused the Nasdaq to slip by 1.5% on a single day, with Nvidia, the bellwether of AI stocks, crashing 17%.

That DeepSeek's latest AI model performs almost as well as OpenAI's or Google's creations is not why it is being hailed as the second comin...