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:

With an actual open source model, China's AI leader just whupped America's AI leader. Can Sam Altman fight back?

DeepSeek 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.

Sam Altman hailed the Chinese firm's low-cost AI model as "impressive" and said OpenAI would accelerate the release of "better models" in response.

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.

If OpenAI LLC were a listed company, Monday would have been a very bad day for the stock. But Chief Executive Sam Altman also happens to be chairman of another, less well-known company that is listed,

With DeepSeek R1 matching ChatGPT o1, the o3 release seems inevitable, but that’s because OpenAI already set it that way.

OpenAI's Stargate Project promises to build AI data centers and clean energy facilities across the U.S., creating 100,000 jobs. But will those promises be kept?

Have American tech companies completely misunderstood what they should do with Large Language Models? It certainly looks that way.