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Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is already using DeepSeek instead of OpenAI at his startup, Gloo


The tech industry's reaction to AI model DeepSeek R1 has been wild. Pat Gelsinger, for instance, is elated and thinks it will make AI better for everyone.

Gelsinger is, of course, the recently former CEO of Intel, a hardware engineer, and current chairman of his own IPO-bound startup, Gloo, a messaging and engagement platform for churches. Gelsinger wrote that DeepSeek should remind the tech industry of its three most important lessons: lower costs mean wider-spread adoption; ingenuity flourishes under constraints; and “open wins. DeepSeek proves that AI can be moved forward “by engineering creativity, not throwing more hardware power and compute resources at the problem.

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