Openai to release new artificial intelligence model FREE | Technology sector

Openai releases a new artificial intelligence model for free after the company said it would speed up product releases in response to the emergence of a Chinese rival.

The start-up behind Chatgpt emits AI, called O3-mini, after the surprise success with a rival product of China’s Deepseek. It will be available free of charge – albeit with utility limits – for people who use the free version of Openais Chatbot.

Deepseek rattled tech investors in the United States with the release of R1, a so-called reasoning model that supported the company’s eponymous chatbot. News that it had topped Apple’s FREE App Store and claims it had been developed into a fraction of the cost that was wiped out $ 1TN from the tech-heavy Nasdaq index on Monday.

Openai’s CEO, Sam Altman, responded to Deepseek’s challenge by promising to “deliver much better models” and speed up product releases. He had first announced plans to release O3-mini-a less powerful version of the full O3 model that has not yet been released public-January 23, days after Deepseek revealed R1.

“Today’s launch marks the first time we bring reasoning features to our free users, an important step towards expanding the availability of advanced AI in service to our mission,” Openai said.

R1, the underlying technology for Deepseeks Chatbot, not only competed with its Openai equivalent in performance, but was also developed with fewer resources, according to Deepseek. This has prompted investors to ask if US tech companies will continue their dominance of the AI ​​market and generate a return on the multibillion-dollar amounts they have invested in AI infrastructure and products.

Openai said the O3-mini model matched its predecessor, O1, in math, coding and science, but at a significantly lower price and with faster answers. Users on Chatgpts Pro-package costing $ 200 a month get unlimited access to O3-mini, while users on the cheaper plus duty have higher utility limits than free users.

The power of the full O3 model was marked in the international AI security report published on Tuesday. The main author of the study, Yoshua Bengio, said its abilities “could have deep consequences for AI risks”. He said O3’s performance in an important abstract reasoning test represented a breakthrough that had stunned experts, including themselves. In some tests, O3 surpassed many human experts, he said.