OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday (Jan 27) known as Chinese language startup DeepSeek’s R1 AI model “spectacular”, however emphasised that OpenAI believes higher computing energy was key to their very own success.
DeepSeek, a low-cost Chinese language synthetic intelligence mannequin, grabbed international 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 instances extra inexpensive to make use of than OpenAI’s o1 mannequin, relying on the duty, in accordance with a put up on DeepSeek’s official WeChat account.
“DeepSeek’s r1 is a powerful mannequin, significantly round what they’re in a position to ship for the value,” Altman stated on X.
“We are going to clearly ship a lot better fashions and in addition it is legit invigorating to have a brand new competitor. We are going to pull up some releases.
“However largely we’re excited to proceed to execute on our analysis roadmap and imagine extra compute is extra necessary now than ever earlier than to succeed at our mission.”
