Both OpenAI and Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA, ETR:NVD) on Monday offered their verdicts on DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence announcement, appearing to welcome the cheaper and less data-hungry bot.
Sam Altman, chief executive of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, vowed improvement and greeted the rival in response.
“We will obviously deliver much better models and also it’s legit invigorating to have a new competitor,” he said on social media.
Nvidia, having shed US$600 billion in value during the day as jitters arose over its capital-heavy chip development, hailed the Chinese firm’s technology in the meantime.
“DeepSeek is an excellent AI advancement and a perfect example of test time scaling,” a spokesperson told CNBC.
“DeepSeek’s work illustrates how new models can be created using that technique, leveraging widely-available models and compute that is fully export control compliant.”
Assuring its chip technology was still in demand, they added: “Inference requires significant numbers of NVIDIA GPUs and high-performance networking.
“We now have three scaling laws: pre-training and post-training, which continue, and new test-time scaling.”