Sam Altman tries to disguise, but is in a panic

Find out how Chinese startup Deepseek is shaking the AI ​​industry with a cost-efficient model that challenges giants like OpenAi and goal, generating trillions in impact on the market

The Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, shocked the technology industry with its extremely cost-efficient AI model, trained at a fraction of the cost of its competitors much more intensive in US resources.

Deepseek has shown to be a force to be recognized, triggering a sale of more than $ 1 trillion, with scared investors wondering if they paid excessively for years for companies such as OpenAi and Meta.

And while OpenAi CEO Sam Altman congratulated DeepSeek for his “impressive” R1 reasoning model, he also promised investors to “deliver much better models.”

But considering the big changes that ChatgPT creator is planning, as reported by Bloomberg, OpenAi seems genuinely shaken, not only stimulated by a “new competitor,” as Altman referred to DeepSek. In fact, it seems that the company is in silent panic while trying to respond adequately to DeepSek’s revolutionary offer.

On the one hand, OpenAi executives have revealed that the company will imitate DeepSeek R1, showing more “reasoning stages” of its AI models, according to Bloomberg.

There is also the price issue. OpenAI has made its O3-Mini reasoning model available for all users last month, in another apparent attempt to compete with DeepSek.

The company is also reconsidering its approach to the open source. Despite its misleading name, OpenAi has become a company mostly for profit and closed code that keeps its letters very close to the chest. In contrast, the DeepSek R1 is an open source model.

During a Reddit AMA earlier this week, Altman said he believes that “we are on the wrong side of history here and we need to find a different open source strategy.”

“Not everyone at OpenAi shares this view, and it’s not our top priority either,” he added.

And it’s not just OpenAi. The CEO of the goal, Mark Zuckerberg, also addressed the theme during a recent results conference.

“I think there are several new things they have done and we are still digesting,” he told investors last month, admitting that the goal expects to “implement” some aspects of Deepseek technology “on our systems.”

“And that’s part of the nature of how it works, whether a Chinese competitor or not,” said Zuckerberg.

Other executives are openly expecting American protectionism to save them. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei also asked US legislators to implement new AI chips export restrictions to prevent China from reaching the US very quickly.

Still, the US AI industry has not changed its plan to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the expansion of the infrastructure. At the center of this movement is the Stargate initiative, supported by OpenAi and President Donald Trump, which aims to raise impressive dollars in four years. (If you will be successful in this, you are still being seen.)

Meanwhile, ironically, DeepSeek has become a victim of its own success, limiting access to its AI models due to the scarcity of server capacity.

In other words, even with its extremely efficient reasoning model, climbing the operation to meet the demand remains a problem underway – which can offer OpenAI at least a little space to breathe.