AI agent race: DeepSeek vs OpenAI and Chinese Manus
DeepSeek is preparing its AI agent that will go beyond familiar chatbots. Bloomberg reveals details of the technology race where the Chinese startup wants to catch up with American OpenAI and local competitor Manus. Reports say company founder Liang Wenfeng personally controls the project and demands results by year-end.
Imagine the new agent’s capabilities. This isn’t just answers to questions. This is autonomous execution of complex action chains. Topic research, task planning, code writing, information search, ticket booking. All with partial autonomy within security systems.
The unique feature claimed is ability to learn from its own mistakes. The agent analyzes previous steps, finds problems, corrects them in next iterations. Almost AI evolution right before the user’s eyes.
DeepSeek wants to catch up with competitors at accelerated pace. ChatGPT Agent already works in virtual machine with its own browser. Chinese Manus released their agent earlier. But DeepSeek wants to surprise with unique capabilities.
By the way, recent DeepSeek V3.1 release showed impressive results in agent task benchmarks. This is probably stage 1 of preparing a full autonomous assistant.
I just don’t understand why everyone is so eager to book tickets through agents. That’s not a problem at all. Solve the problem of finding the best and most advantageous option. Then humans will figure out how to enter their bank card data.