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:

Anupam Mittal, founder of Shaadi.com, responded to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s 2023 dismissive remarks about India’s AI potential, referencing the success of China’s DeepSeek AI model as proof that challengers can emerge.

Elon Musk asked a judge to block OpenAI's attempt to transition from nonprofit to for-profit. It's not the first time he's feuded with CEO Sam Altman.

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.

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

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.

Sure, Altman is getting under Musk’s skin, but more important, he is diffusing the criticism Musk is tossing in his direction. Is Sam Altman trolling Elon Musk? Absolutely. Is it hilarious?

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

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

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman praised Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s R1 model on Monday, describing it as "impressive." However, he also added that OpenAI will

Have American tech companies completely misunderstood what they should do with Large Language Models? It certainly looks that way.