OpenAI wants to "strengthen America's AI leadership" by doing this

OpenAI, the AI tech company behind ChatGPT, is serious about strengthening “America’s AI leadership” amid hefty competition from its Chinese rivals.

The company now taps the US National Laboratories to advance scientific research using its latest reasoning models, including the o1 and perhaps the o3 later, which arrived not too long ago during OpenAI’s 21-day shipmas.

Working besides Microsoft, OpenAI said that it’ll deploy the models on the Venado supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The company hopes to put the drive into fields like materials science, renewable energy, astrophysics, and cybersecurity.

OpenAI is now hoping to accelerate “the basic science that underpins U.S. global technological leadership” and achieve a “new era of U.S. energy leadership by unlocking the full potential of natural resources and revolutionizing the nation’s energy infrastructure.”

Next, the company’s involvement will extend to critical areas like nuclear security and the prevention of biological threats, with a focus on safety and responsible AI deployment.

There’s a lot of anxiety coming out of the US market after DeepSeek’s arrival in the AI race, especially for claiming that it’s built its AI using just $6 million and older Nvidia H100 GPUs. It’s more than just “China built a faster chatbot” — the company had even launched ChatGPT Gov to “maintain America’s global leadership in AI.”

Microsoft, OpenAI’s partner, was among the tech firms that lost its stock value during the whole fiasco, although it adapted by bringing the DeepSeek R1 model to Copilot+ PCs. While it praised the Chinese company for being so cost-effective, Redmond is also looking into DeepSeek’s success and whether it violated OpenAI’s terms of service by improperly accessing its technology data.