US tech giant OpenAI on Monday unveiled a ChatGPT tool called \u201cdeep research\u201d that can produce detailed reports, as China\u2019s DeepSeek chatbot heats up competition in the artificial intelligence (AI) field. The company made the announcement in Tokyo, where OpenAI chief Sam Altman also trumpeted a new joint venture with tech investor SoftBank Group to offer advanced artificial intelligence services to businesses. Altman and SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son will meet the Japanese prime minister later on Monday and will reportedly announce plans to boost Japan\u2019s AI infrastructure. It comes as AI newcomer DeepSeek has sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy, with some calling its high performance and supposed low cost a wake-up call for US developers. OpenAI, whose ChatGPT led generative AI\u2019s emergence into public consciousness in 2022, said its new tool \u201caccomplishes in tens of minutes what would take a human many hours\u201d. \u201cYou give it a prompt, and ChatGPT will find, analyse, and synthesise hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report at the level of a research analyst,\u201d the company said in a statement. On social media platform X Altman said that deep research, which paid \u201cPro\u201d ChatGPT users can access 100 times a month, was \u201cslow\u201d and required a lot of computing power. But he was more bullish on stage at a business forum in Tokyo. \u201cThis is a system that I think can do \u2014 this is just an estimate of mine \u2014 but I think can do a single-digit percentage of all economically valuable tasks in the world,\u201d Altman said. Crystal ball 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 United States. Similar steps to build AI data centres and power plants in Japan could be announced when Altman and Son meet Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, the Nikkei newspaper said. Ishiba is also expected to visit Washington to meet Trump for the leaders\u2019 first in-person meeting later this week. At their event for businesses on Monday afternoon, Son announced a new joint venture equally split between the two companies. Holding a purple crystal ball, the Japanese tycoon outlined the services of a new AI product called Cristal, which can crunch firms\u2019 system data, reports, emails and meetings. A joint statement said SoftBank would \u201cspend $3bn annually to deploy OpenAI\u2019s solutions across its group companies\u201d. The venture \u201cwill serve as a springboard for introducing AI agents tailored to the unique needs of Japanese enterprises while setting a model for global adoption\u201d, it said. \u2018New kind of hardware\u2019 Separately, Altman told the Nikkei he wanted to develop \u201ca new kind of hardware\u201d using artificial intelligence in partnership with Apple\u2019s former chief design officer Jony Ive. But Altman indicated it would take several years to unveil a prototype, the Nikkei said. Altman also told the newspaper that DeepSeek is \u201ca good model\u201d that highlights the serious competition for AI reasoning technology, but that its \u201ccapability level isn\u2019t new\u201d. DeepSeek\u2019s performance has sparked a wave of accusations that it has reverse-engineered the capabilities of leading US technology, such as the AI powering ChatGPT. OpenAI warned last week that Chinese companies are actively attempting to replicate its advanced AI models, prompting closer cooperation with US authorities. While OpenAI has not confirmed Altman\u2019s next movements, media reports said he was expected to travel on Tuesday to Seoul. A spokesperson for South Korean IT conglomerate Kakao told AFP that they would on Tuesday announce their \u201ccollaboration with OpenAI\u201d but did not confirm whether Altman would be there. OpenAI\u2019s Altman says \u2018no plans\u2019 to sue China\u2019s DeepSeek OpenAI chief Sam Altman said the US company has \u201cno plans\u201d to sue Chinese startup DeepSeek, which rattled Silicon Valley with its powerful and apparently cheaply developed chatbot. ChatGPT creator OpenAI warned last week that Chinese companies were actively attempting to replicate its advanced AI models. \u201cNo, we have no plans to sue DeepSeek right now. We are going to just continue to build great products and lead the world with model capability, and I think that will work out fine,\u201d Altman told reporters in Tokyo. \u201cDeepSeek is certainly an impressive model, but we believe we will continue to push the frontier and deliver great products, so we\u2019re happy to have another competitor,\u201d he also reiterated. \u201cWe\u2019ve had many before, and I think it is in everyone\u2019s interest for us to push ahead and continue to lead.\u201d DeepSeek\u2019s performance has sparked a wave of accusations that it has reverse-engineered the capabilities of leading US technology, such as the AI powering ChatGPT. OpenAI has said rivals are using a process known as distillation in which developers creating smaller models learn from larger ones by copying their behaviour and decision-making patterns \u2014 similar to a student learning from a teacher. But the company is itself facing multiple accusations of intellectual property violations, primarily related to the use of copyrighted materials in training its generative AI models. DeepSeek gives Europe\u2019s tech firms a chance to catch up in global AI race Hemanth Mandapati, boss of German startup Novo AI, was an early adopter of DeepSeek chatbots when he switched to the Chinese AI model from OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT two weeks ago. \u201cIf you have built your application using OpenAI, you can easily migrate to the other ones \u2026 it took us minutes to switch,\u201d he said in an interview on the sidelines of the GoWest conference for venture capitalists in Gothenburg, Sweden. DeepSeek\u2019s emergence is changing the landscape for AI, offering companies access to the technology at a fraction of the cost, according to interviews with more than a dozen startup executives and investors. It also has the potential to push other AI companies to improve their models and bring down prices. \u201cThere was an offer from DeepSeek which was five times lower than their actual prices,\u201d said Mandapati. \u201cI am saving a lot of money and users don\u2019t see any kind of a difference.\u201d Europe\u2019s tech startups had struggled to adopt the new technology at the same rate as US rivals, which have easier access to funding. But executives say DeepSeek could be a game changer. \u201cIt marks a significant step forward in democratising AI and levelling the playing field with Big Tech,\u201d said Seena Rejal, chief commercial officer of British firm NetMind.AI, another early adopter of DeepSeek. Analysts at Bernstein estimate that DeepSeek\u2019s pricing is 20 to 40 times cheaper than equivalent models from OpenAI. OpenAI charges $2.5 for 1 million input tokens, or units of data processed by the AI model, while DeepSeek is currently charging $0.014 for the same number of tokens. Concerns have been raised by regulators about whether DeepSeek is copying OpenAI data or censoring answers that could portray China in a bad light. It is currently being investigated in different European countries. \u201cWhile the future of DeepSeek as a business is difficult to predict, the structural impact seems quite pervasive,\u201d said Sanjot Malhi, partner at venture capital firm Northzone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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