DeepSeek

AI OpenAI's Brad Lighcap stated the company now has over 400 million weekly active users. That's an increase of 100 million in less than three months.

AI Demis Hassabis, DeepMind CEO urged employees not to worry about DeepSeek's exaggerated success, citing Google's superiority in the AI landscape.

AI OpenAI wants to work with China, according to CEO Sam Altman. That would mark a massive shift by the company, which does not support access to APIs in China at the moment.

AI Meta Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andrew "Boz" Bosworth claims he'd predicted DeepSeek before it unfolded.

AI The AI takes on OpenAI's o1 reasoning variant. The model, dubbed s1, was trained using a dataset of 1,000 questions for under $50.

AI DeepSeek's website reportedly features computer code that could share user login information with a Chinese telecom despite being barred from operating in the United States.

AI China's DeepSeek AI startup reportedly spent up to $944 million on operating costs.

AI Amy Hood urged employees to remain focused and build toward the company's AI goals, while CEO Satya Nadella says DeepSeek is good for business.

AI Meta's lead AI scientist, Yann Lecun, says there's a "major misunderstanding" about the billion dollars invested in AI.

AI Dario Amodei recently spoke on DeepSeek, China, and its potential future competing against US-based AI firms amid a chip ban imposed by Biden's administration.