Athira Sethu
Kochi, 3 February 2025
A new AI startup, DeepSeek, is causing commotion in Silicon Valley. The heavy-duty chatbot developed by the company has gained traction due to its potential low pricing and advanced features, pressuring U.S. developers to work faster.
OpenAI, the company behind the development of ChatGPT, launched a new tool on Monday called “deep research.” It can accomplish tasks in minutes that would otherwise take hours to be done by a human. The tool can gather information based on many online sources, analyze it, and then create detailed reports. According to OpenAI, this new tool works just like a research analyst, helping users complete their research quickly and efficiently.
In a demonstration, researchers at OpenAI illustrated how deep research can be applied to help a person find the best ski equipment for a trip to Japan. The tool, it again has shown, used web searches to recommend the best options.
The Chief Executive of OpenAI is visiting Tokyo these days. In his list are scheduled meetings with Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to talk over the prospects for the AI system in the future, about building Japan’s proper AI infrastructure and further. Such negotiations have attracted SoftBank head Masayoshi Son into a so-called plan “Stargate”, wherein this concern as well as the concern OpenAI would put 500 billion into investment into various projects dedicated to the artificial intellect development.
In addition to this, Altman shared plans to develop new AI hardware with Jony Ive, Apple’s former chief design officer. However, he said it would take several years to create a working prototype of this new hardware.
Although DeepSeek’s AI wowed many people, some say it’s an OpenAI technology rip-off. OpenAI, in fact, has cautioned Chinese companies for stealing its advanced AI models. To protect their advanced AI models from being copied by Chinese companies, they are having more cooperation with U.S. authorities.
