Openai boss Sam Altman has confirmed that Chinese AI company Deepseek has done a “great job” in creating chatbots. Altman said he intends to meet competing AI companies, but the meeting will not be held at this week’s AI Action Summit in Paris and will be attending on Tuesday.
The sudden appearance of Deepseek last month shook the AI sector and knocked over tech stocks after a Chinese chatbot gave it a performance comparable to ChatGpt. Its performance reportedly is only a small portion of the billions of dollars Openai spent on its own platform, and questions about whether a seemingly untouched US-based AI company can actually try It was throwing it.
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Speaking to the Times Tech podcast, Altman said the timing of Deepshek’s appearance surprised him, even if the appearance of new challengers wasn’t. “We knew at some point we could get a really capable, more serious competitors and models, but we knew if we’d be awake someday that it’s going to be morning. Not,” he said. “So it’s not at all surprising that it happened. I think it’s amazing that day happened,” he added. “They did some great work, and I think there are also some great pieces of products that show that the chain of thought is clearly what people wanted. “The mass availability in the free tier was obviously what people wanted. Researchally, that’s not a major update for us, but they did some great things there as well. did.”
The two-day AI Summit in Paris, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, is seen as an opportunity for world leaders and the largest tech companies to find a common foundation and global approach to AI development and governance . However, security and safety concerns have been raised about the nature of China-based AI development. Altman acknowledged that, given current geopolitics, regional differences in AI products are inevitable, and that AI services could “operate differently from country to country.” “I think you can imagine some sort of hierarchy of what AI has to do globally.
This is what AI has to do with this country, this country, and with individual users,” he said. “One thing I think isn’t that easy to solve is that we’re heading towards more authoritarian AI or more democratic AI. “I’m on the side of democratic AI. It’s very much in, but it comes with some trade-offs. It comes with bad things in society too. I think that’s the only way forward. “But that’s another thing. So my hope is that we can find something we can agree on, have some rules, and that technology works differently in different countries. “The models are different from the West and the West.” I’m sure there is, but you know, we all have a common interest in continuing in the world.”
The ChatGpt boss also discussed his company’s latest innovation, Deep Research. This discussed tools designed to independently discover online information and carry out complex, multi-step research tasks on behalf of users. Altman said he believes the tool could have a major impact and believes it can do “about 5% of all the tasks in the economy today.” He added that AI is already changing people’s daily lives, predicting this will continue at even faster speeds. “Even AI skeptics these days have been saying things like, “I can do what I’ve been working for days or weeks now.” he said. These tasks can be performed in parallel.
That’s going to change the way I work. That would change the way my science is.” “If you project this same rate of change another two years or ten years ago, I think that means people can do incredible things. “Ask AI to do at that point. I don’t know. I think we’re literally limited by the questions we can come up with. And there’s AI to help with that.”
Altman’s comments are because Openai has released new statistics on the use of ChatGpt and Openai in the UK separately. The US company has made its own programme using OpenAI tools to the top three countries around the world to pay ChatGPT subscribers, and the top three to pay business customers He said that. The US company noted that the UK government was one of its customers and used the GPT-4o model as part of its testing of chatbots to allow small businesses to navigate the gov.uk website.
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The AI chatbot has over 300 million active users per week. Regarding the adoption of UK AI, Altman said: “Millions across the UK have experienced how AI can improve their lives, jobs and learning, but businesses of all sizes are increasingly productive, creativity and competitive on a scale. “As AI capabilities progress, we hope that more people, businesses and start-ups in the UK will benefit from this transformative technology.”
