ChatGPT vs Perplexity: Sam Altman praises Aravind Srinivas’ Deep Research AI; ‘Proud of you’ | Mint

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…