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

DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence provider that develops open-source LLMs. R1, the latest addition to the company’s model lineup, debuted last week. The release of the LLM caused a broad selloff in AI stocks that sent Nvidia Corp.’s shares plummeting 17% on Monday, along with many other technology stocks.

DeepSeek is making waves with its cost-effective and powerful AI models, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman praising the Chinese AI startup's AI advancements.

OpenAI reportedly claimed that it had seen evidence of distillation of its AI models, which it suspected to be from DeepSeek.

For example, Copilot (then called Bing AI) gained early access to GPT-4. Now, Microsoft allows Copilot users to access OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model for free. This is a pretty new model, only hitting the market last month.

Sam Altman responds to DeepSeek R1, revealing OpenAI's plans for superior AI models and a bold vision for artificial superintelligence.

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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, a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model,

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman welcomed the debut of DeepSeek’s R1 model in a post on X late on Monday.

The company claims the model performs at levels comparable to OpenAI's o1 simulated reasoning (SR) model on several math and coding benchmarks. Alongside the release of the main DeepSeek-R1-Zero ...

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released an open version of DeepSeek-R1, its so-called reasoning model, that it claims performs as well as OpenAI's o1 on certain AI benchmarks. R1 is available from ...

Created by the Hangzhou-based startup DeepSeek, the model is being hailed as a competitor to OpenAI’s GPT models, such as ChatGPT o1. DeepSeek claims R1 matches—and in some cases surpasses ...