Quoting luokai

DeepSeek R1 not only accelerated the release of OpenAI’s o3-mini for unlimited use by paid users and the free trial of o3-mini for free users to experience Reasoning capabilities, but also prompted OpenAI to introduce a new agent function called Deep Research

• https://bsky.app/profile/luok.ai/post/3lhedmfpaos2d

The LLM race participants figured that we weren’t going fast enough, and decided it to kick it up another notch. I would love to be a fly in the wall during these conversations (I would not want to be an active participant though).