DeepSeek is the new artificial intelligence company that everyone is talking about.
And if everyone is talking about it, the father of ChatGPT—the world’s most popular generative AI—couldn’t stay silent.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has dared to share his opinion on this emerging Chinese competitor, which is shaking up the tech industry with a different approach.
DeepSeek stands out for developing open-source language models that compete with those of tech giants while investing significantly less money.
Ready to Face The Chinese AI Model
Altman remains confident that OpenAI’s upcoming developments will surpass what DeepSeek has to offer.
He emphasized that the company is primarily focused on advancing its research roadmap and believes that now, more than ever, access to greater computational resources will be essential for success.
Looking ahead, he expressed enthusiasm for the future of AI, anticipating that next-generation models will bring remarkable advancements.
OpenAI remains committed to its pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI), an advanced form of AI capable of performing human-level intellectual tasks.
Although this was his most recent public statement regarding AGI, Altman had previously addressed growing speculation about the imminent release of a new super AI, urging caution and advising against overly high expectations.
DeepSeek, a startup based in Hangzhou, China, continues to draw attention as a formidable player in the AI space.
As a low-cost Chinese AI model, DeepSeek has rapidly gained global recognition and disrupted the tech industry.
The company claims to have trained its DeepSeek-V3 model with less than six million dollars in computing power—a stark contrast to companies like OpenAI, which invest billions in their AI training processes.
Since launching its first free chatbot application just a few weeks ago, DeepSeek has quickly become the most downloaded app on the iOS App Store in the United States, even surpassing ChatGPT.
The surge in popularity has been so overwhelming that the company recently became the target of a cyberattack, leaving it unable to accept new user registrations for the time being.
