China’s DeepSeek Preps AI Agent for End-2025 to Rival OpenAI (2)

DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI in a newer frontier of the technology, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Hangzhou-based startup is building an AI model that’s designed to carry out multi-step actions on a person’s behalf with minimal direction from the user, said the people. The system is also meant to learn and improve based on its prior actions, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the information is private.

DeepSeek joins a broader industry movement to create true AI agents, ...