News of Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s success continues to send ripples throughout the West, tanking Nvidia’s stock valuation, spawning endless discourse, and embarrassing President Trump. Now, even American startup gurus are starting to jump ship. Pat Gelsinger, the former CEO of tech superpower Intel, says that after seeing DeepSeek’s tech, his new church startup — called, no joke, Gloo — is foregoing OpenAI’s tech in favor of an in-house model. “My Gloo engineers are running [DeepSeek’s] R1 today,” Gelsinger told TechCrunch. “They could’ve run [OpenAI’s] o1 — well, they can only access o1, through the APIs.” Gelsinger — who left Intel under a dark cloud last year as the chipmaker’s financial woes deepened — enthused that DeepSeek will lower the cost to develop similar models, decreasing the barrier to entry in the industry. And the godly CEO isn’t alone. Tech journalists have been quick to note DeepSeek’s faster and cheaper performance compared to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Even Trump admitted to eating a certain amount of crow, calling DeepSeek a “wake-up call” at a House GOP meeting. The newly-minted president further sang DeepSeek’s praises, admitting the R1 model could be “very much a positive development” if American companies could leverage the model to cut down on their own astronomical costs. Not everyone is as excited for the Chinese tech as Trump, though. After several days of brooding in silence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman delivered a retort: “We will obviously deliver much better models and also it’s legit invigorating to have…Former Intel CEO Says After Seeing DeepSeek, He's Done With OpenAI