OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday (Jan 27) known as Chinese language startup DeepSeek’s R1 AI mannequin “spectacular”, however emphasised that OpenAI believes better computing energy was key to their very own success.
DeepSeek, a low-cost Chinese language synthetic intelligence mannequin, grabbed world consideration final month when it said in a paper that coaching its DeepSeek-V3 mannequin required lower than US$6 million in computing energy utilizing the lower-capability Nvidia H800 chips.
DeepSeek-R1, launched final week, is 20 to 50 occasions extra reasonably priced to make use of than OpenAI’s o1 mannequin, relying on the duty, in response to a put up on DeepSeek’s official WeChat account.
“DeepSeek’s r1 is a formidable mannequin, notably round what they’re in a position to ship for the value,” Altman stated on X.
“We’ll clearly ship a lot better fashions and in addition it is legit invigorating to have a brand new competitor. We’ll pull up some releases.
“However principally we’re excited to proceed to execute on our analysis roadmap and consider extra compute is extra vital now than ever earlier than to succeed at our mission.”
