{"id":956348,"date":"2025-08-20T11:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956348"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:49:40","slug":"sam-altman-admits-chinas-deepseek-forced-openais-hand-on-open-models-if-we-didnt-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/20\/sam-altman-admits-chinas-deepseek-forced-openais-hand-on-open-models-if-we-didnt-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman admits China\u2019s DeepSeek forced OpenAI\u2019s hand on open models: \u2018If we didn\u2019t do it\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI released its first open-weight models since GPT-2 earlier this month, promising strong real-world performance at low cost. With China\u2019s DeepSeek shaking up the AI industry earlier this year through open-source releases, it became clear why OpenAI didn\u2019t want to be on what CEO Sam Altman called the \u201cwrong side of history.\u201d For the first time since the launch of its GPT-OSS models, Altman has openly acknowledged the \u201cChina factor\u201d behind the move.<\/p>\n<p>In an interaction with CNBC, Altman admitted that competition from Chinese open-source models like DeepSeek played a major role in OpenAI\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI released its first open-weight models since GPT-2 earlier this month, promising strong real-world performance at low cost. With China\u2019s DeepSeek shaking up the AI industry earlier this year through open-source releases, it became clear why OpenAI didn\u2019t want to be on what CEO Sam Altman called the \u201cwrong side of history.\u201d For the first time since the launch of its GPT-OSS models, Altman has openly acknowledged the \u201cChina factor\u201d behind the move. In an interaction with CNBC, Altman admitted that competition from Chinese open-source models like DeepSeek played a major role in OpenAI\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}