Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others have thoughts about the news from DeepSeek.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a picture of himself with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday and suggested the two companies are getting along just fine.

One of the more revealing things to come out of the chaos was the response to Deepseek from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT. In a thread on X, Altman called the model “impressive” and said that it was “legit invigorating” to have a competitor:

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has taken the tech world by storm with its cost-effective, high-performance chatbot, which was developed for under $6 million—far less than the billions spent by US tech giants like OpenAI.

Meta, Apple, Google and other tech companies have been named in a letter penned by Democratic lawmakers, accusing them of cozying up to President-elect Trump.

Meta, Nvidia, and other tech giants react to DeepSeek's competitive, cost-efficient models that challenge established market players.

DeepSeek R1 outshines OpenAI's ChatGPT with lower costs, open-source tech, and superior efficiency, challenging US dominance in AI innovation.

OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman clapped back at two Democratic senators’ inquiry into his $1 million personal donation to President-elect Trump’s inaugural fund, quipping Friday

Sam Altman called DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model impressive and claimed that OpenAI will deliver better models than the Chinese offering in the future.

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.

DeepSeek’s generative AI chatbot, a direct rival to ChatGPT, is able to perform some tasks at the same level as recently released models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, despite claims it cost a fraction of the money and time to develop.