Audiophile! A foreign software engineer bought the OGOpenAI.com domain name and redirected it to DeepSeek

Recently, a software engineer Ananay Arora purchased the domain name OGOpenAI.com for "less than a Chipotle meal" and redirected it to the Chinese AI laboratory DeepSeek. This decision has attracted the attention of many people, because DeepSeek has recently made significant progress in the field of open source AI and has become a hot topic of discussion.

The AI ​​model released by DeepSeek is technically similar to the early OpenAI model, can be used offline, and can be used free of charge by any developer with the corresponding hardware. This feature makes DeepSeek's products favored by many developers. Last week, the lab released an open version of its DeepSeek-R1 model, claiming to outperform OpenAI's o1 model in some benchmarks. This news has attracted widespread attention among AI enthusiasts.

In sharp contrast to DeepSeek, OpenAI is currently relatively cautious in releasing its powerful models, especially since there have been few open source releases in recent years. This approach has sparked criticism from some in the industry and was even mentioned in Elon Musk's lawsuit, accusing OpenAI of not following its original non-profit mission.

Arora said the purchase of the domain was inspired by a now-deleted tweet on Platform X by Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, which compared DeepSeek to the early OpenAI A comparison was made. He believes that redirecting the OGOpenAI.com domain name to DeepSeek is an interesting move.

DeepSeek joins the ranks of Chinese AI labs such as Alibaba's Qwen, which are also releasing open alternatives to OpenAI models. Although the U.S. government has long tried to curb China's AI labs through chip export restrictions, if China's latest AI model release can continue to attract attention, it is clear that more measures will be needed to deal with this competition.