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

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

The company made the statement in Tokyo, where OpenAI chief Sam Altman also trumpeted a brand-new joint venture with tech financier SoftBank Group to use advanced expert system services to businesses.

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

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

"You give it a prompt, and ChatGPT will find, analyse, and synthesise numerous online sources to produce a detailed report at the level of a research expert," the business said in a statement.

Altman said on social media platform X that deep research study, which paid "Pro" ChatGPT users can access 100 times a month, was "slow" and required a lot of computing power, but he was also bullish.

"My very approximate ambiance is that it can do a single-digit portion of all economically valuable jobs on the planet, which is a wild milestone," Altman wrote in another X post.

One commentator, business owner Michel Levy Provencal, said the new tool might mean "huge problems ahead for specialists".

- Crystal ball -

SoftBank and OpenAI belong to the Stargate drive announced by US President Donald Trump to invest up to $500 billion in synthetic intelligence infrastructure in the United States.

In a venture with OpenAI, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son revealed a brand-new AI item called Cristal, which can crunch system information, reports, emails and conferences for firms

Altman and SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son met Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday evening, and gone over extending "Stargate into Japan", Son informed reporters later on.

"We wish to produce the cutting-edge AI facilities-- what I indicate by that is the world's most significant, cutting-edge AI data centres," Son said, without giving more details.

Ishiba is expected to go to Washington to fulfill Trump for the leaders' very first in-person conference later this week.

At an organization online forum held Monday afternoon, Son announced a new joint venture equally split 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 "spend $3 billion annually to deploy OpenAI's options throughout its group business".

The endeavor "will function as a springboard for introducing AI representatives tailored to the unique needs of Japanese enterprises while setting a design for worldwide adoption", it said.

- 'No strategies' to take legal action against -

DeepSeek's performance has actually stimulated a wave of accusations that it has reverse-engineered the capabilities of leading US innovation, such as the AI powering ChatGPT.

OpenAI alerted recently that Chinese companies are actively attempting to reproduce its innovative AI models, prompting 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 today".

"DeepSeek is certainly an excellent design, however we think we will continue to push the frontier and provide fantastic items, so we more than happy to have another rival," he also restated.

OpenAI says rivals are using a process referred to as distillation in which developers developing smaller models gain from larger ones by copying their behaviour and decision-making patterns-- similar to a trainee learning from a teacher.

The company is itself dealing with several accusations of copyright violations, mainly related to using copyrighted materials in training its generative AI models.

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

A representative for South Korean IT conglomerate Kakao informed AFP it would on Tuesday announce its "partnership with OpenAI" but did not validate whether Altman would exist.

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