DeepSeek’s open-source AI reasoning model, R1, is gaining attention in the tech world, even briefly surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT in App Store rankings. Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has now shared his thoughts, praising its impact. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), he emphasized key lessons from computing history that R1 reflects: lower costs drive adoption, innovation flourishes under constraints, and “Open Wins.”
Gelsinger also thanked the DeepSeek team in his post.
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“Wisdom is learning the lessons we thought we already knew. DeepSeek reminds us of three important learnings from computing history:1) Computing obeys the gas law. Making it dramatically cheaper will expand the market for it. The markets are getting it wrong, this will make AI much more broadly deployed.2) Engineering is about constraints. The Chinese engineers had limited resources, and they had to find creative solutions.3) Open Wins. DeepSeek will help reset the increasingly closed world of foundational AI model work. Thank you DeepSeek team.”When a user asked if he was still Intel CEO, would he be “excited about DeepSeek”, Gelsinger replied in affirmation.
Gelsinger was ‘fired’ as Intel CEO in December last year amid a prolonged period of corporate challenges that have dramatically eroded the company’s market position and investor confidence. He is currently the chairman of Gloo, a messaging and engagement platform designed specifically for churches, aiming to enhance communication and community-building within faith-based organizations.
He told TechCrunch “My Gloo engineers are running R1 today. They could’ve run o1 — well, they can only access o1, through the APIs.”