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 is planning to visit India on February 5, 2025, according to Reuters. This might mark Altman's first visit to India in two years, following his 2023 meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's decision to join President Trump's "Stargate" AI initiative marks a stark reversal for the tech CEO, who previously was a vocal critic of Trump.

Microsoft-backed OpenAI's chief Sam Altman is planning to visit India next week, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, in what could be his first visit in two years at a time when the company faces legal challenges in the country.

Neither OpenAI, India’s IT ministry, nor Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office have commented on the visit yet.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has announced a shift in his previously critical perspective on President Donald Trump. Newsweek has contacted OpenAI and the White House for comment via email.

Altman and Musk were OpenAI’s founding co-chairs in 2015, but their relationship has devolved into name-calling and lawsuits.

Elon Musk, the eccentric but undeniably influential CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has recently found himself at odds with some influential figures in the financial

Davos | San Francisco | SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $US25 billion ($40 billion) into OpenAI, in a deal which would make it the ChatGPT maker’s biggest financial backer, as the pair partner on a massive new artificial intelligence infrastructure project.

OpenAI was openly challenged by Chinese startup DeepSeek in the AI arena, which the ChatGPT maker has commanded since 2022. While OpenAI has alleged intellectual property misuse on the part of DeepSeek,

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World.”