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 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.

Deepseek's r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on social media

From left: Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank; Larry Ellison, executive chairman of Oracle; and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI listen to President Trump speak at the White House on Jan. 21 ...

As Chinese AI model from DeepSeek makes waves in the U.S., tech industry leaders have mixed reactions. While some praise its efficiency, others are sceptical

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the AI startup will release better models than those of China's DeepSeek, whose powerful low-cost AI model triggered a tech selloff in the U.S. and called into question Silicon Valley's lead in the global AI race.

Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others have thoughts about the news from DeepSeek.

DeepSeek has shook the tech world with its cost-effective open-source models. The AI startup has received praises from all corners of the world including from its competitor OpenAI.

I’m going to ask the question out loud that we’re all asking internally. Is it time to panic? Should you panic?

Entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, known for co-writing Mosaic, one of the world’s first web browsers, wrote Sunday on X that “DeepSeek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” likening it to the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and the event that forced the U.S. to realize that its technological abilities were not unassailable.

A Chinese AI company has shaken up Wall Street and Silicon Valley, but is it really the disruptor people think?