DeepSeek Debuts New AI Models to Rival Google and OpenAI

China’s DeepSeek unveiled two new versions of an experimental artificial-intelligence model it released weeks ago, adding fresh capabilities the startup said would help with combining reasoning and executing certain actions autonomously.

While the model the Hangzhou-based company released in September was called DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp in a nod to its experimental status, the latest version is dubbed simply DeepSeek-V3.2. The startup says the new service matches the performance of OpenAI Inc.’s flagship GPT-5 across multiple reasoning benchmarks, suggesting China’s open-source systems remain competitive with Silicon Valley’s frontier proprietary models on at least certain metrics.

DeepSeek also said the V3.2 version combines ...