Following the debut of the Chinese DeepSeek AI model a week ago and the subsequent crash in the global tech industry, the US tech giant OpenAI on Monday unveiled a ChatGPT tool called “Deep Research ahead of high-level meetings in Tokyo.”
The new AI DeepSeek has sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy with its top performance and supposedly low-cost prompting.
On the contrary, OpenAI, which took global markets by surprise when it made its official announcement on the global tech stocks, has said that its new tool has "accomplished in tens of minutes what would take a human many hours."
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Deep research, according to OpenAI, “can work independently, needing just prompt commands.”
The OpenAI chief Sam Altman is in Tokyo to meet Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba later on Monday along with Masayoshi Son, head of Japanese tech investment behemoth SoftBank Group.
SoftBank and OpenAI are part of the Stargate drive announced by US President Donald Trump to invest up to $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure in the US.
Altman and Son will hold a forum in Tokyo with around 500 businesses to boost Japan's AI infrastructure.
Additionally, Altman told reporters that DeepSeek is "a good model" that highlights the serious competition for AI reasoning technology, but that its "capability level isn't new."
Meanwhile, DeepSeek’s performance has sparked a wave of accusations that it has reverse-engineered the capabilities of leading US technology, such as the powerful AI powering ChatGPT.
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