Recently, Google introduced Gemini 3, which the company called its "most intelligent" AI model yet. So far, the AI leaderboards agree, with Gemini 3 surging ahead of rivals like ChatGPT at LMArena. Now, OpenAI head honcho Sam Altman has reportedly declared "code red" at the company in response to increased pressure from competitors.

The Hangzhou-based company released DeepSeek-V3.2 and a more specialized variant, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, which it says can match or approach the performance of OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Google’s Gemini-3 Pro on key reasoning and math benchmarks.