- Openais Sam Altman called Deepseeks viral AI model “impressive”
- In response he says, “We will of course deliver much better models”
- President Trump calls Deepseek a “wake-up call” to US tech giants
China’s Viral Deepseek app has a missillic name, and it blasts a gap in stock prices and plans for chatgpt and other AI giants. But Openai CEO Sam Altman is – at least in public – undisturbed by the unexpected new rival.
With comment on X (formerly Twitter), Altman said Deepseeks R1 is an “impressive” model and it’s hard not to hear it in the Patrick Bateman -voice under American Psycho Business card scene.
But Altman was also Bullish about how Openai would react. He added that “we will of course deliver much better models” and that it is “legitimately refreshing to have a new competitor”.
Deepseeks R1 is an impressive model, especially about what they are able to deliver for the price. Of course, we will deliver much better models, and it is also legitimately refreshing to have a new competitor! We pull up some releases.January 28, 2025
The reason why Deepseek has caused such an uprising is because it is both open source and was built on less advanced Nvidia chips, which means its development costs were relatively small compared to larger models such as Chatgpt 4o.
Still, Altman doesn’t think this has changed the AI game. He doubled on Openai’s vision and added that the company thinks “more calculation is more important now than ever before to succeed on our mission” and that “the world wants to use a lot of AI and really be quite amazed over the next general models coming” .
Recently inaugurated US President Donald Trump does not quite agree to call the increase in Deepseek a “wake-up call” for American tech giants. He was talking to reporters at Air Force One, he added: “If you could make it cheaper if you could do [for] less [and] Come to the same end result. I think it’s a good thing for us. “
Presumably Trump only sees Deepseek as a “good thing” as long as us ai giants quickly learn from its lessons, but it is far from guaranteed …
What happens next?
Deepseeks short-term influence on AI is undeniable-the chip-making giant Nvidia suffered the largest one-day market value dive in the US history yesterday, after doubt was thrown at the need for its massive computational power in what could now be the age of radically more effective models .
But what happens then is less clear. Almost immediately after Deepseek hit the top of the App Store and Google Play Store in the US, the app was hit by a massive cyber attack that temporarily close its doors to new registrations.
More importantly, questions have now begun to be raised about Deepseek’s privacy and security policies. Its privacy policy explicitly says that “we store the information we collect on safe servers located in the People’s Republic of China”.
It shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, but it raises questions about whether the US and other countries could embark on a tiktok-style crash on Chinese AI models as Deepseek-or at least discourage consumers and businesses from using them Meanwhile.
