New Competitors Chase OpenAI in Reasoning AI Race

After OpenAI sparked a race this fall by releasing groundbreaking artificial intelligence known as reasoning AI, it seemed like the ChatGPT owner might run away with the market.

Both Google and Microsoft scrambled to catch up with the technology, which aims to help users answer complex, multi-step questions, according to two people involved in the effort at the companies. But in the past week or so, the dynamics of the reasoning race appear to have changed: A little-known startup, a Chinese quant trading firm, and Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group each released reasoning models that seem to score well against OpenAI’s.