The Best DeepSeek Quotes.

Here is a collection of DeepSeek quotes by top minds. In case you haven’t heard of DeepSeek it is similar to ChatGPT. DeepSeek dethroned ChatGPT as the top app on the App Store. Here is a quote by Dave Waters that sums up why DeepSeek is disrupting the AI industry: “The DeepSeek breakthrough is due to cutting-edge AI performance, open source code, and greatly reduced computational power.” Here is a cheat sheet and further details on Deepseek, and why some are calling it AI’s Sputnik moment.

“To people who see the performance of DeepSeek and think: “China is surpassing the US in AI.” You are reading this wrong. The correct reading is: “Open source models are surpassing proprietary ones.”” ~Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta.
“Deepseek R1 is one of the most amazing and impressive breakthroughs I’ve ever seen — and as open source, a profound gift to the world.” ~Marc Andreessen
“We think investors should take the innovation from China seriously, as it puts into question whether the current pace of capex spend/technology upgrades is necessary.” ~Angelo Zino
“The release of DeepSeek, AI from a Chinese company should be a wakeup call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win.” ~Donald Trump
“Jevons paradox strikes again! As AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket, turning it into a commodity we just can’t get enough of.” ~Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.
“If these models turn out to be pretty capable, which they really are looking like, and they’re very cheap, then there’s a world where companies stop using OpenAI at scale.” ~William Falcon, CEO of Lightning AI
“The reason you don’t want overly aggressive AI regulation right now is the DeepSeek problem. One day there will be a breakthrough somewhere else, and having your arms tied behind your back trying to accelerate past it will destroy your chances of doing so.” ~Aaron Levie, CEO of Box
“Deepseek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment.” ~Marc Andreessen
“deepseek’s r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they’re able to deliver for the price. we will obviously deliver much better models and also it’s legit invigorating to have a new competitor! we will pull up some releases.” ~Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.
“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.” ~Jack Clark, Co-Founder of Anthropic.
“In 30 years, a robot will likely be on the cover of Time Magazine as the best CEO. Machines will do what human beings are incapable of doing. Machines will partner and cooperate with humans, rather than become mankind’s biggest enemy.” ~Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba.
“What we’ve found is that DeepSeek … is the top performing, or roughly on par with the best American models.” ~Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI.
“20 years ago, all of this [artificial intelligence] was science fiction. 10 years ago, it was a dream. Today, we are living it.” ~Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA.
“Deepseek is now #1 on the AppStore, surpassing ChatGPT—no NVIDIA supercomputers or $100M needed. The real treasure of AI isn’t the UI or the model—they’ve become commodities. The true value lies in data and metadata, the oxygen fueling AI’s potential. The future’s fortune? It’s in our data. Deepgold.” ~Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.
“The DeepSeek breakthrough is due to cutting-edge AI performance, open source code, and greatly reduced computational power.” ~Dave Waters
“They came up with new ideas and built them on top of other people’s work. Because their work is published and open source, everyone can profit from it. That is the power of open research and open source.” ~Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta.