While Altman said he was initially sceptical of DeepSeek's low cost claims, he regarded the making of powerful small language models the most exciting development in the past year.

A week after the launch of China’s DeepSeek AI model wiped nearly a trillion US dollars in market cap off American tech stocks, triggering an AI arms race between the US and China, and drawing inevitable parallels with “the Sputnik moment”,

DeepSeek’s success has prompted discussions about whether training large language models truly requires billions of dollars in capital and cutting-edge semiconductor technology. Altman himself acknowledged the significance of DeepSeek’s progress, describing its R1 model as “impressive” for the limited funding it reportedly received.

The Japanese conglomerate is in talks to spend up to $43 billion to boost the ChatGPT developer.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman highlights India's significance as the second biggest market for AI, with rapid user growth and advancements in AI technologies.

On Friday, six of the top leaders at OpenAI held an AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) session on the r/OpenAI subreddit. One of the commenters was CEO Sam Altman, who revealed his personal feelings on his company’s approach to open source AI models.

OpenAI recently held an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit, addressing important issues, including its $500 billion bet on Stargate, AGI, cost-effective competition from DeepSeek, and open-source strategy.