<p>After several days of silence, OpeNAI CEO Sam Altman has finally collected himself, and spoken out about Chinese AI startup DeepSeek throwing Silicon Valley into sheer chaos. The company's R1 AI model scared investors this week, demonstrating that it can run circles around competing models from the likes of OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic — at a tiny fraction of the cost. Despite the resulting bloodbath, a more than $1 trillion tech wipeout, Altman saw it as a positive development for the AI industry as a whole. "Deepseek's R1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for […]</p>