Programmer buys OGOpenAI.com domain name and switches to DeepSeek

Recently, a software engineer purchased the OGOpenAI.com domain name "for less than the price of a Chipotle meal" and redirected it to the website of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence laboratory. The laboratory has emerged in the field of open source AI and attracted widespread attention.

According to software engineer Ananay Arora (Ananay Arora) revealed to "TechCrunch", his original intention was to support DeepSeek, because the laboratory recently launched an open version model called DeepSeek-R1, claiming that in some cases Outperforms OpenAI's o1 in benchmark tests. Arora said DeepSeek's models can be used offline and are freely available to any developer with the necessary hardware, similar to some of OpenAI's early models such as Point-E and Jukebox.

DeepSeek has attracted attention from AI enthusiasts over the past week because of the open source nature of its models. In sharp contrast to OpenAI's recent gradual reduction in the release of open high-end models, DeepSeek provides developers with a more convenient way to use it. OpenAI's recent conservative approach has been criticized by some in the industry and was even mentioned in Elon Musk's lawsuit, alleging that the company failed to live up to its original non-profit mission.

Arora said he was inspired by a since-deleted post on Platform X by Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas in which he compared DeepSeek to early OpenAI. "I thought it would be interesting to redirect this domain to DeepSeek," Arora told TechCrunch.

With the rise of DeepSeek, China's AI laboratories are gradually releasing open alternative models, such as Alibaba's Qwen. Arora's move is not only a support for the open source AI movement, but also an interesting exploration of technological change and innovative spirit.