New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman praised Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas for building a rival Deep Research project based on China's DeepSeek AI. Notably, OpenAI had recently rolled out Deep Research to ChatGPT which prompted Srinivas to bring a similar offering, albeit less accurate but faster and cheaper.

The conversation began with Altman announcing a new update to ChatGPT (based on GPT-4o model), which he claimed is 'pretty good' and would soon get much better.

"we put out an update to chatgpt (4o). it is pretty good. it is soon going to get much better, team is cooking." Altman wrote on X

The vague post got a reply from Srinivas who asked, "sorry what's the update?"

In reply, the OpenAI CEO explained, "among many ot...