For his part, Donald Trump has commented that the emergence of this new generative AI model represents "a wake-up call" for the American industry.

Sam Altman, CEO of US startup OpenAI, which is responsible for ChatGPT, said that the chatbot model presented by China's DeepSeek "is impressive", especially considering the performance offered and the price.

" Deepseek 's R1 model is impressive, especially considering what they can offer for the price," the executive said in a thread posted on his profile on social network X, where he described the entry of a new competitor as "exciting" and promised to offer "much better" products.

"Obviously we will offer much better models and it is really exciting to have a new competitor," said Altman in anticipation of the presentation of the new releases, although he did not offer any details in this regard.

In any case, OpenAI's CEO has stressed that the firm will continue to execute its research roadmap, adding that computing "is more important now than ever."

"The world will want to use a lot of AI and will really be amazed by the next-generation models that will come. We look forward to bringing AGI and beyond to everyone," he added.

Regarding the emergence of China's DeepSeek, the US president has commented that it represents "a wake-up call" for the US industry, although he has not hesitated to point out that it could be "something positive", since it seems to have devised a faster and less costly method for developing AI.

"The launch of DeepSeek AI by a Chinese company should be a wake-up call to our industries that we must focus on competing to win because we have the best scientists in the world," Trump said.

Previously, Marc Andreessen, one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capitalists, was full of praise, saying that Deepseek R1 "is one of the most amazing and impressive advances I've ever seen and, as open source, a great gift to the world." "Deepseek R1 is the Sputnik moment for AI," he said, highlighting the impact it could have on the sector.