OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman welcomed the debut of DeepSeek’s R1 model in a post on X late on Monday.

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI research lab, has released an advanced AI model which rivals leading models from OpenAI. The DeepSeek-R1 model can perform complicated mathematical reasoning, code generation, and more with fewer resources than its American competitors.

Sam Altman hailed the Chinese firm's low-cost AI model as "impressive" and said OpenAI would accelerate the release of "better models" in response.