OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the brand-new 'deep research' tool in Tokyo

US tech giant OpenAI on Monday unveiled a ChatGPT tool called "deep research" that can produce detailed reports, as China's DeepSeek chatbot warms up competition in the expert system field.

The business made the statement in Tokyo, where OpenAI chief Sam Altman also trumpeted a new joint endeavor with tech financier SoftBank Group to offer advanced expert system services to services.

AI beginner DeepSeek has sent out Silicon Valley into a frenzy, with some calling its high performance and expected low expense a wake-up call for US designers.

OpenAI, whose ChatGPT led generative AI's emergence into public consciousness in 2022, said its brand-new tool "achieves in tens of minutes what would take a human numerous hours".

"You give it a timely, and ChatGPT will find, evaluate, and synthesise hundreds of online sources to develop a detailed report at the level of a research study analyst," the business said in a declaration.

Altman said on social networks platform X that deep research, which paid "Pro" ChatGPT users can access 100 times a month, was "sluggish" and needed a lot of computing power, but he was likewise bullish.

"My extremely approximate ambiance is that it can do a single-digit portion of all economically important tasks on the planet, which is a wild turning point," Altman wrote in another X post.

One commentator, entrepreneur Michel Levy Provencal, said the new tool could imply "huge problems ahead for consultants".

- Crystal ball -

SoftBank and OpenAI become part of the Stargate drive announced by US President Donald Trump to invest as much as $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States.

In an endeavor with OpenAI, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son announced a brand-new AI item called Cristal, which can crunch system data, reports, emails and meetings for companies

Altman and SoftBank creator Masayoshi Son satisfied Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday night, and gone over extending "Stargate into Japan", Son told reporters later on.

"We wish to create the innovative AI facilities-- what I mean by that is the world's greatest, innovative AI information centres," Son said, townshipmarket.co.za without offering further details.

Ishiba is expected to visit Washington to meet Trump for the leaders' first in-person meeting later on this week.

At an organization forum held Monday afternoon, Son announced a new joint venture similarly divided in between SoftBank Group and OpenAI.

Holding a purple crystal ball, the Japanese tycoon detailed the services of a new AI product called Cristal, which can crunch system information, reports, emails and meetings for companies.

A joint statement said SoftBank would "invest $3 billion yearly to release OpenAI's solutions across its group business".

The venture "will serve as a springboard for introducing AI agents tailored to the special needs of Japanese enterprises while setting a design for global adoption", it said.

- 'No strategies' to take legal action against -

DeepSeek's efficiency has a wave of allegations that it has actually reverse-engineered the abilities of leading US technology, such as the AI powering ChatGPT.

OpenAI cautioned last week that Chinese companies are actively trying to duplicate its innovative AI designs, triggering closer cooperation with US authorities.

When asked if he was thinking about taking legal action, Altman said on Monday that "we have no plans to take legal action against DeepSeek right now".

"DeepSeek is certainly an outstanding model, however we think we will continue to press the frontier and deliver great products, so we enjoy to have another competitor," he also repeated.

OpenAI says competitors are using a procedure called distillation in which developers producing smaller sized models gain from bigger ones by copying their behaviour and decision-making patterns-- comparable to a trainee knowing from a teacher.

The company is itself facing several allegations of intellectual home violations, mainly connected to using copyrighted materials in training its generative AI models.

While OpenAI has actually not verified Altman's next motions, media reports said he would travel on Tuesday to Seoul.

A spokesperson for South Korean IT conglomerate Kakao told AFP it would on Tuesday reveal its "cooperation with OpenAI" however did not verify whether Altman would exist.

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