Sam Altman has reacted to Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s rapid rise in the AI world and stated that it is invigorating to have a new competitor. Altman has also hinted at potential new releases by OpenAI in order to counter DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model.
In subsequent posts on X, Altan wrote, “deepseek’s r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they’re able to deliver for the price. we will obviously deliver much better models and also it’s legit invigorating to have a new competitor! we will pull up some releases.”
“but mostly we are excited to continue to execute on our research roadmap and believe more compute is more important now than ever before to succeed at our mission. the world is going to want to use a LOT of ai, and really be quite amazed by the next gen models coming.” the OpenAI CEO added
