This week, Silicon Valley leaders confronted their first serious AI rival from China: DeepSeek. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, sensing the heat, said his company will launch some products a little earlier than planned. Other industry leaders said it validated the worth of open-source models at a time when companies have been growing more secretive.
But most tech leaders, especially those who build services on top of AI systems, said a new entrant would help lower prices and expand the market by making AI more accessible.
Here are some of the top leaders' reactions:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, on X: "deepseek's r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price...we will obviously deliver much better models and also it's legit invigorating to have a new competitor!" Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce: "This is kind of classic in our industry. The pioneers are not the ones who end up being the victors." Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, on X: "As AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket, turning it into a commodity we just can't get enough of." Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, on Threads: "To people who see the performance of DeepSeek and think: 'China is surpassing the US in AI.' You are reading this wrong. The correct reading is: 'Open source models are surpassing proprietary ones.'" Ali Ghodsi, CEO of data management company Databricks: "The game here [in the U.S.] was to throw as much money at it as possible. In China, they took a different path with much more frugal and intelligent approaches." Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, on X: "1) Computing obeys the gas law. Making it dramatically cheaper will expand the market for it. The markets are getting it wrong, this will make AI much more broadly deployed."
This week, Silicon Valley leaders confronted their first serious AI rival from China: DeepSeek. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, sensing the heat, said his company will launch some products a little earlier than planned. Other industry leaders said it validated the worth of open-source models at a time when companies have been growing more secretive.
But most tech leaders, especially those who build services on top of AI systems, said a new entrant would help lower prices and expand the market by making AI more accessible.
Here are some of the top leaders' reactions:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, on X: "deepseek's r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price...we will obviously deliver much better models and also it's legit invigorating to have a new competitor!" Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce: "This is kind of classic in our industry. The pioneers are not the ones who end up being the victors." Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, on X: "As AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket, turning it into a commodity we just can't get enough of." Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, on Threads: "To people who see the performance of DeepSeek and think: 'China is surpassing the US in AI.' You are reading this wrong. The correct reading is: 'Open source models are surpassing proprietary ones.'" Ali Ghodsi, CEO of data management company Databricks: "The game here [in the U.S.] was to throw as much money at it as possible. In China, they took a different path with much more frugal and intelligent approaches." Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, on X: "1) Computing obeys the gas law. Making it dramatically cheaper will expand the market for it. The markets are getting it wrong, this will make AI much more broadly deployed."有了这个，Meta和其他公司也可以用同样的方法训练大模型。我在LinkedIn上的几百个connect大多数都是做AI的，现在大家在上面讨论最多的不是这个模型本身，而是他们发的这篇论文，有人根据他们的方法用了这个在家用十几台iMac搭建的cluster就训练了一个不错的模型