OpenAI released its Operator AI agent for ChatGPT on Thursday, which should have been a major milestone for the company and AI development in general. While I wouldn’t pay $200/month to test this early version of Operator, what I saw in the OpenAI demos blew my mind. Operator is miles ahead of Google’s AI agents, at least when it comes to demos. I can’t wait to get my hands on it once OpenAI brings it to other ChatGPT paid tiers, and, more crucially for me personally, to the EU.
However, the real AI story taking over the world isn’t ChatGPT, Operator, or the massive Stargate project that was announced last week. The DeepSeek AI story took over the world when the Chinese startup released its R1 reasoning model that can match OpenAI’s ChatGPT o1.
There’s nothing surprising about that; we expect other AI firms to match o1. After all, OpenAI already unveiled o3, which should be announced in a few days or weeks. What’s unusual about DeepSeek is that the Chinese company made its models open-source, so any company or developer can access and inspect them. More interesting is the R1 research paper that DeepSeek released, which claims the highly sophisticated model was trained at a fraction of the cost of OpenAI’s o1.
News that DeepSeek R1 training is possible with only 3% to 5% of the resources OpenAI needs for similar progress with ChatGPT made waves around the world. AI-related stocks tanked during Monday’s early trading, just as DeepSeek surged to become #1 in the App Store, surpassing ChatGPT.
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