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 rattled 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 of training infrastructure. After the resulting bloodbath — a more than $1 trillion tech wipeout — Altman presented moderately conflicting messages: that he was impressed by DeepSeep, and that he intends for OpenAI to deliver an epic beatdown on it. “Deepseek’s R1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they’re able to deliver for the price,” Altman tweeted Monday evening. “We will obviously deliver much better models and also it’s legit invigorating to have a new competitor!” Instead of tapping into the promises of lowering computing costs, though, Altman is unwilling to take his foot off the gas. “But mostly we are excited to continue to execute on our research roadmap and believe more compute is more important now than ever before to succeed at our mission,” he added in an apparent attempt to reassure spooked investors balking at rocketing capital expenditures. “The world is going to want to use a LOT of AI, and really be quite amazed by the next-gen models coming,” he added. But whether that’s the kind of rallying cry investors wanted to hear remains to be seen. DeepSeek impressed with its ability to deliver…Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Going to Deliver a Beatdown on DeepSeek