By Eric Revell | Fox Business
Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, wrote in a post on X that “Deepseek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” in reference to the Soviet Union’s early lead over the U.S. in the Cold War era Space Race.
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark wrote in his “Import AI” newsletter, “R1 is significant because it broadly matches OpenAI’s o1 model on a range of reasoning tasks and challenges the notion that Western AI companies hold a significant lead over Chinese ones.”
While some tech sector figures and investors in the AI space see DeepSeek’s advancements as signaling the arrival of a new phase of AI competition, others are less convinced that it poses a broad challenge to the U.S. tech industry.