While Pat Gelsinger has recently resigned as Intel’s CEO, he is busy building his startup Gloo, which is described as a messaging and engagement platform for churches. This startup needs to utilize AI, and to the surprise of everyone, Gelsinger revealed that he is using DeepSeek R1 instead of OpenAI, and is impressed with what DeepSeek has achieved so far.
“Making it dramatically cheaper will expand the market for it. The markets are getting it wrong, this will make AI much more broadly deployed,” Gelsinger said in his post on X. “DeepSeek will help reset the increasingly closed world of foundational AI model work”.
We have given DeepSeek a try recently, and its new R1 model does stand to its claim to closely match the performance of other AI models like Gemini and ChatGPT at a lower budget, fewer resources, and while using older NVIDIA Blackwell AI chips.
The praise for DeepSeek caused a significant dent in NVIDIA and AI stocks, and it raises new concerns for the United States about the effectiveness of the trade sanctions–particularly those controlling the export of AI chips–to China.
“Having the Chinese remind us of the power of open ecosystems is maybe a touch embarrassing for our community, for the Western world,” Gelsinger adds on what DeepSeek has attained so far.
