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By Theo Burman
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has responded to the popularity of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence styling itself as a rival to ChatGPT.
Altman said that it was "invigorating to have a new competitor," but added that OpenAI's product would still be better.
Newsweek contacted DeepSeek for a response to the comments via email.
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Why It Matters
OpenAI and DeepSeek represent two sides of the race to develop artificial intelligence in the U.S. and China respectively. The contest is explicit, with DeepSeek describing itself as "rivaling OpenAI's Model o1," and with Altman aiming to make the U.S. dominant in the AI industry. His statements today are an acknowledgment of an international contest to develop the most-effective AI models.
What To Know
On Monday evening, Sam Altman responded to the surge of popularity surrounding DeepSeek, which overtook ChatGPT to become the top-rated free application on Apple's App Store in the U.S. on Monday.
DeepSeek has made waves for producing similar results as ChatGPT but with just a fraction of the computing power, using a stockpile of only 10,000 of Nvidia's H100 chips.
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In a statement on X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI CEO Altman described DeepSeek as "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 road map and believe more compute is more important now than ever before to succeed at our mission," Altman added.
"The world is going to want to use a LOT of AI, and really be quite amazed by the next gen models coming."
Altman has previously described the development of AI as a race between democracy and authoritarianism, and has warned that the U.S. needs to maintain its position at the front of AI advances to prevent the technology from being misused.
Additionally, DeepSeek has shown signs of censorship, being unable to answer basic questions about Tiananmen Square or Chinese President Xi Jinping, while being able to answer identical questions on different topics.
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This chart, provided by Statista, shows the estimated price for processing one million input/ output tokens on different AI models.
What People Are Saying
President Donald Trump said on Monday: "I've been reading about China and some of the companies in China, one in particular coming up with a faster method of AI and much less expensive method, and that's good because you don't have to spend as much money. I view that as a positive, as an asset."
What Happens Next
DeepSeek is continuing to disrupt the AI market, with experts describing its launch as a "Sputnik moment" that could prompt a more aggressive AI policy from the Trump administration.
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