One of the more revealing things to come out of the chaos was the response to DeepSeek from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT. In a thread on X, Altman called the model “impressive” and said that it was “legit invigorating” to have a competitor:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has responded to the market hype of the recently unveiled DeepSeek AI, which caused tech company stocks to plummet.
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DeepSeek is unlike anything OpenAI has seen despite Sam Altman’s confidenceDeepSeek R1 outshines OpenAI's ChatGPT with lower costs, open-source tech, and superior efficiency, challenging US dominance in AI innovation.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has taken the tech world by storm with its cost-effective, high-performance chatbot, which was developed for under $6 million—far less than the billions spent by US tech giants like OpenAI.
There's a new entrant in the Artificial Intelligence chatbot market from China. It is competing with giants like OpenAI, Gemini, ClaudeAI, etc. disrupting the American hegemony in AI-based generative chatbot models.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Chinese startup DeepSeek's R1 AI model "impressive" on Monday, but emphasized that OpenAI believes greater computing power was key to their own success.
The CEO of the US-based AI firm, Sam Altman said, "We will obviously deliver much better models and also it's legit invigorating to have a new competitor! We will pull up some releases." To note, DeepSeek owned by Chinese billionaire Liang Wenfeng, has been making waves with its large language models (LLMs).
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw's statement appeared to target comments made by OpenAI's Sam Altman during a visit to India last year, when he cast doubt on the possibility of an Indian team being able to build a substantial model in the OpenAI space with a $10 million budget.
With DeepSeek R1 matching ChatGPT o1, the o3 release seems inevitable, but that’s because OpenAI already set it that way.
OpenAI's Sam Altman is making the rounds in D.C. on Thursday in an attempt to show unity with President Trump and announce a new initiative to make sure the government has the most capable AI. Why it matters: Tech companies see an opportunity in the new Trump administration to shape AI policy.
Have American tech companies completely misunderstood what they should do with Large Language Models? It certainly looks that way.
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