Since Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek rattled Silicon Valley and Wall Street with its cost-effective models, the company has been accused of data theft through a practice that is common across the industry.

David Sacks says OpenAI has evidence that Chinese company DeepSeek used a technique called "distillation" to build a rival model.

OpenAI said on Wednesday that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's open-source models may have "inappropriately" based its work on the output of OpenAI's models, an OpenAI spokesperson told Axios. Why it matters: China's DeepSeek has taken the AI industry by storm with its R1 reasoning model that competes with OpenAI's o1,

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

OpenAI claims to have found evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek secretly used data produced by OpenAI’s technology to improve their own AI models, according to the Financial Times. If true, DeepSeek would be in violation of OpenAI’s terms of service. In a statement, the company said it is actively investigating.

The San Francisco start-up claims that its Chinese rival may have used data generated by OpenAI technologies to build new systems.

OpenAI and Microsoft are big mad that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has stolen their market share and, possibly, portions of their code. It’s a deeply funny claim from the company that made ChatGPT, a program it once admitted couldn’t exist without free access to all the copyrighted data in the world.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman downplayed the significance of a new artificial intelligence (AI) model released by Chinese startup DeepSeek on Thursday, saying it did a “couple of nice things” but has been

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.

Though the US and Silicon Valley once dominated AI innovation, China’s AI ecosystem, long underestimated by Western observers, has made what can only be described as a “quantum leap,” epitomized by the meteoric rise of DeepSeek.

SoftBank Group (TYO:9984) is in talks to lead a funding round of up to $40 billion in OpenAI, valuing the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, sources said. If finalized, this would mark a record-breaking private funding