OpenAI itself has been accused of building ChatGPT by inappropriately accessing content it didn't have the rights to.

OpenAI is seeking to raise $40 billion in a new funding that could elevate its valuation to an astonishing $430 billion, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.Japan's

Did the upstart Chinese tech company DeepSeek copy ChatGPT to make the artificial intelligence technology that shook Wall Street this week?

However, the consensus is that DeepSeek is superior to ChatGPT for more technical tasks. If you use AI chatbots for logical reasoning, coding, or mathematical equations, you might want to try DeepSeek because you might find its outputs better.

OpenAI's o1 reasoning model usually requires a costly subscription, but it's now free to all Microsoft Copilot users. This move follows a surge in popularity for Chinese AI app Deepseek and its free reasoning model earlier this week.

OpenAI has recently launched the ChatGPT Gov, the company's tailored version of ChatGPT, for the US government.

The new chatbot brings the same capabilities from the public model to government-approved and secure cloud environments for federal workloads.

DeepSeek's AI chatbot has been removed from Italy's app stores amid data privacy concerns. Authorities question its data storage practices, while security fears grow over its potential links to Chinese servers.

There is a big lesson here for South Korea’s policymakers and tech companies. The country, which lags behind in AI solutions, may stumble into a fresh opportunity to catch up if the government and conglomerates realise it’s not too late to invest in making inroads into the AI battlefield.

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