OpenAI’s Sam Altman has reacted to the sudden rise of DeepSeek, but promises that the ChatGPT maker will eclipse it soon.

Elon Musk threw shade at OpenAI’s Sam Altman on Tuesday after his rival took center stage at the White House to unveil his ambitious $500 billion “Stargate” AI infrastructure project.

TikTok CEO Shou Chew is expected to be seated on the dais for the inauguration along with tech billionaires Elon Musk, who is CEO of SpaceX, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to two people with the matter.

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TikTok got a short reprieve to make a deal. Project Stargate, a $500B AI plan from OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank, pushes Musk, Microsoft, aside. Google buys HTC VR tech.

This includes the full specs and color options for the entire three-phone lineup (made up of the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25 Plus, and Galaxy S25 Ultra), details of AI enhancements, including a new morning brief feature, and even the Samsung Galaxy S25's jazzy new ringtone (which Samsung itself released early).

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World.”

DeepSeek has quickly risen to become the most downloaded free app in the US, just one week after its launch. This surge in popularity coincides with growing concerns in the US over a tech race with China,

DeepSeek has shook the tech world with its cost-effective open-source models. The AI startup has received praises from all corners of the world including from its competitor OpenAI.

Oracle looks like a big winner from the new Stargate Project. The tech giant began working more closely with OpenAI last summer. Oracle is outgrowing leaders like Amazon in cloud-infrastructure revenue.

OpenAI founder Sam Altman is facing criticism online after an old video of him resurfaced, in which he dismissed the idea of building a competitive AI model on a $10 million budget as "hopeless." The clip,

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