US company OpenAI today announced an ‘in-depth search’ tool for ChatGPT, shortly before a meeting in Tokyo with partner SoftBank, at a time when China’s DeepSeek is stepping up its competition in artificial intelligence.
OpenAI said that the new tool ‘accomplishes in tens of minutes what would take many hours’ to be done by a person.
‘In-depth research is OpenAI’s new tool that can work for you independently: give it a command and ChatGPT will find, analyse and synthesise hundreds of ‘online’ sources to create a comprehensive analyst-level report,’ says OpenAI on the official portal.
The ChatGPT conversational robot marked the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for the general public in 2022.
In a live video presentation, OpenAI researchers demonstrated how ‘deep search’ was able to summarise Internet search data to recommend ski equipment for a snow holiday in Japan.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in Tokyo today to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son.
Altman and Son are partners in Stargate, a new project involving investments of at least 500 billion dollars (488 billion euros) in AI infrastructure in the United States, recently unveiled by US President Donald Trump.
Masayoshi Son also attended Trump’s inauguration in January.
These developments come at a time when Chinese start-up DeepSeek has shaken up the US tech world with its powerful conversational robot developed at low cost and operating with fewer resources.
In an interview with the Japanese business newspaper Nikkei, Sam Altman said that China is catching up with US-based AI technologies.
He also warned that AI technologies could be used by authoritarian states to reinforce control.
Lusa
