OpenAI is examining whether Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek improperly obtained data from its models to build a popular new AI assistant, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill. The ChatGPT maker said it is “reviewing indications that DeepSeek may have inappropriately distilled” its models.

White House AI czar David Sacks alleged Tuesday that DeepSeek had used OpenAI’s data outputs to train its latest models through a process called distillation.

According to unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg, the probe started last fall after Microsoft's security researchers discovered that a group linked to DeepSeek had accessed a

DeepSeek caused a market tsunami on Monday as investors digested the news that its new R1 model appeared to perform well despite being trained with less sophisticated chips, somet

DeepSeek is causing havoc throughout the AI industry. U.S.-based tech companies that have heavily invested in AI saw their stocks take a tumble this week after the China-based startup released a new AI model on par with OpenAI's latest model,

Sam Altman’s OpenAI said Chinese competitor DeepSeek could be committing intellectual property theft. DeepSeek, an emerging Chinese artificial intelligence company, sent shockwaves through the technology world when its AI model surged to the top of the app store in the United States this week.

OpenAI says it has uncovered evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used its proprietary models to train a competing open-source