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:

Meta, Nvidia, and other tech giants react to DeepSeek's competitive, cost-efficient models that challenge established market players.

The recent surge of the potentially disruptive R1 AI model by Chinese startup DeepSeek is forcing tech leaders from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Nvidia to speak up to reassure investors.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has responded to the market hype of the recently unveiled DeepSeek AI, which caused tech company stocks to plummet.

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

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.

DeepSeek R1 outshines OpenAI's ChatGPT with lower costs, open-source tech, and superior efficiency, challenging US dominance in AI innovation.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman praised Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s R1 model on Monday, describing it as “impressive.” However, he also added that OpenAI will “deliver much better models” and appreciated the fact that the company has a new competitor.

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.

Data center technology spending skyrocketed 34 percent in 2024, according to Synergy Research Group. It is soaring past a half a trillion dollars in the first month of 2025 as banks and technology vendors vie to build out massive AI compute.