OpenAI CEO Sam Altman downplayed the significance of a new artificial intelligence (AI) model released by Chinese startup DeepSeek on Thursday, saying it did a “couple of nice things” but has been

After the Chinese startup DeepSeek surprised everyone with its AI reasoning model, OpenAI's CEO responded to that hype.

Sam Altman called DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model impressive and claimed that OpenAI will deliver better models than the Chinese offering in the future.

It's hard to overstate just how impactful DeepSeek has been. In a couple of days, it rattled the entire AI industry, shattering the aura of invincibility that OpenAI (and American tech companies in ge

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has publicly applauded competitor DeepSeek’s R1 model in a recent social media post.

His remarks come as DeepSeek R1, a Chinese AI language model, recently overtook ChatGPT on Apple’s App Store rankings in the US and continues to climb in India. The Hangzhou-based DeepSeek, backed by Tencent, has drawn attention for its low-cost AI services, claiming superior performance in reasoning and coding at a fraction of OpenAI’s pricing.

As reported by the Financial Times, OpenAI claims to have evidence that Chinese rival DeepSeek used their model to train.

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI research lab, has released an advanced AI model which rivals leading models from OpenAI. The DeepSeek-R1 model can perform complicated mathematical reasoning, code generation, and more with fewer resources than its American competitors.