Google study finds DeepSeek, Alibaba AI models mimic human collective intelligence

South China Morning PostCenter-RightEN 1 min read 100% complete by Vincent ChowJanuary 22, 2026 at 12:00 AM

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A Google study has found that AI models from DeepSeek and Alibaba Cloud exhibit internal cognition similar to human collective intelligence. Published on arXiv, the research by Google's "Paradigms of Intelligence" team explored DeepSeek's R1 and Alibaba Cloud's QwQ-32B models, discovering that these reasoning models generate internal "societies of thought" through multi-agent debates. The study suggests that perspective diversity, rather than just computational scale, contributes to the increasing intelligence of AI. Researchers believe this establishes a computational parallel to collective intelligence in human groups, where diversity enables superior problem-solving. The findings also highlight the growing importance of Chinese open models for cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in the US.

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