DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company, caught the entire AI market by surprise, and no one more so than OpenAI. Its ChatGPT-like model R1 received raving reviews with a fraction of the development cost. President Trump called it a “wake-up” call for the entire American tech industry.

Perhaps Stargate, OpenAI’s flashy new infrastructure project, will ease the feeling of scarcity internally. Crusoe, the company building Stargate’s first data centers in Abilene, Texas, has already broken ground on a 998,000 square foot facility, according to Andrew Schmitt, a spokesperson for the company.

OpenAI itself has been accused of building ChatGPT by inappropriately accessing content it didn't have the rights to.

The San Francisco start-up claims that its Chinese rival may have used data generated by OpenAI technologies to build new systems.

However, the consensus is that DeepSeek is superior to ChatGPT for more technical tasks. If you use AI chatbots for logical reasoning, coding, or mathematical equations, you might want to try DeepSeek because you might find its outputs better.

OpenAI has released o3-mini, providing a more powerful model to face off against the dark horse DeepSeek in what is shaping up to be an epic power struggle. The reasoning model is designed to be much more competent in coding,

OpenAI rolled out a new, lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) model that it said is capable of humanlike reasoning and makes gains on efficiency — a product that will be closely watched following the release of an open-source model from China's DeepSeek.

DeepSeek-R1 is nearly ten times less safe than OpenAI’s o3-mini, with higher rates of unsafe responses, particularly in financial crime, violence, and hate speech categories. OpenAI’s policy safeguards play a crucial role in preventing harmful outputs.

The newest member of OpenAI's o family of reasoning models, o3-mini, was introduced on Friday. The o3-mini is on schedule