He calls the development the "Android moment," referring to when Google's Android made its operating system source code freely available, fostering innovation and development in the non-Apple app ecosystem.
"We used to think China was 12 to 24 months behind [the U.S.] in AI and now we think that's probably three to six months," said Wang.
However, other experts have downplayed the idea that open-source AI should be seen through the lens of China and U.S. competition. In fact, several U.S. companies have integrated and benefited from DeepSeek's R1.