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DeepSeek Researcher Voices Pessimism About AI’s Future Impact Despite Company’s Global Success

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In its first major public appearance since becoming a global AI sensation, Chinese developer DeepSeek struck a surprisingly cautious tone about the technology’s long-term impact on society.

At the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Chen Deli, a senior researcher at DeepSeek, warned that artificial intelligence could create major social disruptions within the next two decades. “In the next 10–20 years, AI could take over the rest of work humans perform and society could face a massive challenge,” Chen said. “I’m extremely positive about the technology, but I view the impact it could have on society negatively.”

Chen shared the stage with executives from five other Chinese AI companies—Unitree, BrainCo, and others—collectively referred to as the country’s “six little dragons” of AI innovation. While praising AI’s potential in the short term, Chen stressed that companies like DeepSeek must act as “defenders” of social stability as automation accelerates.

DeepSeek rose to global prominence in January after releasing a low-cost open-source AI model that outperformed several leading U.S. systems. The company’s meteoric rise has since made it a symbol of China’s technological resilience amid intensifying competition with the United States.

Despite its success, DeepSeek has remained mostly silent publicly. Its only major appearance this year came when founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng met President Xi Jinping in February. The company has since skipped several major tech events, adding to its enigmatic reputation.

DeepSeek has continued developing its technology quietly, unveiling in September a new V3 model that it described as “experimental,” optimized for efficiency and longer text processing. Its work has also boosted China’s domestic chip ecosystem: hardware makers Cambricon and Huawei now build processors compatible with DeepSeek’s models.

In August, DeepSeek’s announcement of an upgraded model optimized for Chinese-made chips caused local semiconductor stocks to surge—underlining how the company remains both a technical pioneer and a national symbol of self-reliance in AI.

Microsoft Adds Anthropic AI Models to 365 Copilot, Expanding Beyond OpenAI

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Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it is integrating Anthropic’s AI models into its Copilot assistant, marking a strategic move to diversify beyond its close partnership with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.

While OpenAI’s models will continue to power Copilot by default, users will now be able to choose Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 for tasks within Copilot’s “Researcher” tool and when building custom agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Starting this week, users who opt in to test Claude will be able to switch seamlessly between OpenAI and Anthropic models in Researcher, said Charles Lamanna, president of Microsoft’s business and industry Copilot division.

The shift underscores Microsoft’s effort to broaden the foundation of its AI services. Until now, Copilot’s advanced features across apps such as Word and Outlook have relied primarily on OpenAI.

Although Microsoft is OpenAI’s largest investor, the company has also been developing its own models and integrating those from other AI firms. Earlier this year, it announced plans to offer models from Elon Musk’s xAI and Meta Platforms, all hosted within its data centers. Models from China’s DeepSeek have also been added to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.

Anthropic’s Claude models, however, are primarily hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a direct competitor to Microsoft Azure, highlighting a rare cross-cloud collaboration.

Huawei unveils censorship-optimized DeepSeek model with Zhejiang University

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Huawei announced it has co-developed a new safety-focused version of DeepSeek, trained to block politically sensitive or harmful content in line with Chinese government regulations requiring AI to reflect “socialist values.” The model, named DeepSeek-R1-Safe, was trained using 1,000 Huawei Ascend AI chips in partnership with Zhejiang University, though DeepSeek and its founder Liang Wenfeng were not directly involved.

The move underscores how China’s AI industry is embracing and modifying DeepSeek’s open-source R1 model, which stunned global markets earlier this year for its sophistication and low reported training costs. Chinese companies like Baidu have already adopted strict filtering in their AI chatbots, such as Ernie Bot, to avoid sensitive political topics.

Huawei claimed DeepSeek-R1-Safe achieved “nearly 100% success” in blocking toxic content, politically sensitive discussions, and incitement to illegal activities. However, the success rate dropped to 40% under disguised prompts, such as role-play or coded inputs. On average, its comprehensive defense rate was 83%, outperforming competitors like Alibaba’s Qwen-235B and the larger DeepSeek-R1-671B by 8–15%.

Huawei said the new model maintained strong performance, with less than a 1% drop compared to the original DeepSeek-R1, despite the added safety layers.

The launch comes during Huawei’s annual Connect conference in Shanghai, where the company also revealed detailed chipmaking roadmaps and new computing power initiatives—part of China’s broader effort to reduce reliance on U.S. technologies while aligning AI systems with domestic political and social controls.