Recently, the top-level domain ai.com was found to be redirected to the official website of Chinese AI big model manufacturer DeepSeek. This is the first time the domain name has turned to a Chinese AI company. Previously, the domain name has been redirecting between websites such as ChatGPT, Gemini, x.ai.
The ai.com domain name was first registered in 1993 and has a history of 30 years. In 2023, after ChatGPT became popular, the domain name once jumped to the ChatGPT official website, and there was news that OpenAI had acquired the domain name for US$11 million.
However, this rumor was not officially confirmed, and the domain name was then pointed to Musk's xAI official website. But neither OpenAI nor Musk publicly acknowledge the ownership of the domain name.
Nowadays, the redirection of ai.com domain name points to the official website of DeepSeek. Many people interpret this change as the "hot spot" behavior of domain name holders for DeepSeek's popularity, and believe that this move indirectly reflects DeepSeek's global Rapid rise and its influence in the field of AI. This change also attracts attention to the growing emergence of Chinese AI companies in the global technology competition.