Talking about DeepSeek at the World Governments Summit 2025 held in Dubai, UAE, Baidu CEO Robin Li said that innovation comes from cost reduction.

"Looking back over the past few hundred years, most innovations are related to reducing costs, not only in the field of artificial intelligence, but even not just in the IT industry. If you can reduce costs by a certain amount or a certain percentage, then it means that your productivity has increased by the same percentage."

He believes that the emergence of DeepSeek is expected, "Innovation cannot be planned. You don't know when and where innovation will come. What you can do is to create an environment conducive to innovation."