Barrett Woodside, co-founder of the San Francisco AI hardware company Positron, said he and his colleagues have been abuzz about DeepSeek.

DeepSeek built top-performing AI models using less-advanced chips at what it says is a fraction of the cost of rivals such as OpenAI.

OpenAI—which faces multiple lawsuits for using content without permission—accuses DeepSeek of 'distillation,' a technique that use larger models' outputs to improve smaller ones.

OpenAI has been cozying up to the government for a few years now, and it’s been turbocharged under the Trump Presidency. Earlier this week, Altman announced ChatGPT Gov, a specialized version of its chatbot for government applications.

Los Alamos National Laboratory is partnering with OpenAI to conduct national security research. The two entities, which announced the partnership in separate announcements, said LANL will install OpenAI's latest o-series models onto its Venado supercomputer,