AXIOS January 28, 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday called Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s R1 an “impressive model” and pledged his company would “deliver much better models” in the future.
Why it matters: DeepSeek’s announcement that its new model that’s cheaper than U.S. competitors is on par with them sent some tech and energy stocks tumbling and alarmed the likes of Meta Monday — though President Trump called it a “positive development” and “a wakeup call for our industries.”
What he’s saying: Altman on X praised DeepSeek’s R1 model that’s particularly good at problem solving, performing on par with OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model, for what it was able to deliver at its price point
- But he said “the world is going to...
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