OpenAI Announces New 'Deep Learning' Tool for ChatGPT

DeepSeek – a newcomer in the field of artificial intelligence – has caused a stir in Silicon Valley thanks to its high performance and low cost, prompting calls from AI developers in the US to accelerate the pace of research.

OpenAI, which has made ChatGPT a symbol of generative AI since 2022, says its new tool can “accomplish in tens of minutes what would take humans hours.”

“Deep Research is a new element of OpenAI that can work independently for you – you just need to enter a request, and ChatGPT will search, analyze, and synthesize hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report at the level of a research analyst,” OpenAI said in their statement.

In a livestream video announcement, OpenAI researchers demonstrated how the tool aggregated data from web searches to make recommendations for shopping for ski equipment for a vacation in Japan.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was in Tokyo to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba late on February 3, along with Masayoshi Son, head of Japanese tech investment giant SoftBank Group.

SoftBank and OpenAI are part of the Stargate initiative announced by US President Donald Trump, which aims to invest up to $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure in the US.

Mr. Ishiba is expected to travel to Washington this weekend for his first face-to-face meeting with Mr. Trump.

'New kind of hardware'

On the afternoon of February 3, Mr. Altman and Mr. Son will hold a forum in Tokyo attended by about 500 companies, where they are expected to announce plans to strengthen Japan's AI infrastructure.

The plan includes building AI data centers and power plants to run them, but the exact scale of the investment is unclear, according to the Nikkei business daily.

Additionally, Altman said he wants to develop “a whole new kind of hardware” using artificial intelligence, working with Jony Ive – Apple's former chief design officer.

However, according to Nikkei, Altman said it will take several years to announce a prototype of this product.

Altman also acknowledged that DeepSeek is “a good model,” showing how fiercely competitive the field of reasoning AI is, but he asserted that DeepSeek’s capabilities are “nothing new.”

DeepSeek's strong performance has sparked accusations that China has reverse-engineered advanced US AI technology, including the technology that powers ChatGPT.

Last week, OpenAI warned that Chinese companies are actively seeking to copy its advanced AI models, prompting closer cooperation with the US government.