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:

There's a new entrant in the Artificial Intelligence chatbot market from China. It is competing with giants like OpenAI, Gemini, ClaudeAI, etc. disrupting the American hegemony in AI-based generative chatbot models.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman has reacted to the sudden rise of DeepSeek, but promises that the ChatGPT maker will eclipse it soon.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's decision to join President Trump's "Stargate" AI initiative marks a stark reversal for the tech CEO, who previously was a vocal critic of Trump.

DeepSeek was founded by a hedge fund entrepreneur named Liang Wenfeng, who pulled together his former employees and dozens of Ph.D. graduates from Chinese universities to try and build human-level AI

Altman and Musk were OpenAI’s founding co-chairs in 2015, but their relationship has devolved into name-calling and lawsuits.

OpenAI’s CEO has stolen Musk’s thunder and it’s a lesson for every leader. Sam Altman and Elon Musk aren’t friends. They used to be colleagues back when the two were co-founders of OpenAI, and they seemingly shared the belief that artificial intelligence could be a huge net benefit for society.

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.

With an actual open source model, China's AI leader just whupped America's AI leader. Can Sam Altman fight back?

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

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