This article reports on an incident in which a software engineer purchased the OGOpenAI.com domain name at a very low price and redirected it to the DeepSeek website of the Chinese artificial intelligence laboratory. DeepSeek recently released the open source AI model DeepSeek-R1, whose performance exceeds OpenAI's o1 in some benchmark tests and is available for free offline use by any developer with the necessary hardware. This move has attracted widespread attention in the industry and is also closely related to OpenAI. The recent move away from opening up high-end models stands in stark contrast. The engineer's move was interpreted as support for the open source AI movement and also reflected the vitality of technological change and the spirit of innovation.
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.
DeepSeek's open source move and the engineer's clever support herald further changes in the competitive landscape in the field of artificial intelligence, and also provide developers with more choices and possibilities. This incident also triggered thinking and discussion on the future development direction of open source AI.