DeepSeek Unleashes New AI Models to Challenge Google and OpenAI

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History is full of rivals. Rome against Carthage. VHS versus Betamax. And now we have the US taking on China in the race for AI dominance.

DeepSeek has unveiled two new versions of its flagship model, sharpening Beijing’s challenge to US leaders OpenAI and Google in high-end AI systems.

The Hangzhou-based company released DeepSeek-V3.2 and a more specialized variant, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, which it says can match or approach the performance of OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Google’s Gemini-3 Pro on key reasoning and math benchmarks.

The announcement marks another escalation in the global race to build powerful AI “thinking” systems that can not only generate text but also plan, reason, and act autonomously ...