alt Hacker NewsNot necessarily. DeepSeek will probably only threaten the API usage of OpenAI, which could also be banned in the US if it's too sucessful. API usage is not a main revenue for OpenAI (it is for Anthropic last time I checked). The main competitor for R1 is o1, which isn't gnerally available yet.
DeepSeek is an open source model. You can download it and run it locally on your laptop already.
So any OpenAI user ( or competitor even) could take it and run a hosted model. You can even tweak the weights if you wanted to.
Why pay for OpenAI access when you can just run your own and save the money?