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

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, yet much cheaper to train — plus, DeepSeek made it free and open source.

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see the Japanese conglomerate spend more than $40 OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $25 billion from SoftBank amid DeepSeek shock.

ChatGPT maker says it will need extra protection from US government, following emergence of Chinese rival, DeepSeek.

This whole DeepSeek copying ChatGPT accusation from OpenAI and Microsoft reminds me of a lesson I’ve learned over the past 15 years of writing about this stuff — most people do not care if something is a copycat.

OpenAI believes DeepSeek used a process called “distillation,” which helps make smaller AI models perform better by learning from larger ones.

Alibaba says the latest version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model can take on fellow Chinese firm DeepSeek's V3 as well as the top models from U.S. rivals OpenAI and Meta.

DeepSeek’s AI products have shaken up the American stock market and tech industry—but some experts are questioning how big of a threat the Chinese company really is.

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

India's IT minister has praised Chinese startup DeepSeek for shaking up the sector with its low-cost AI assistant, likening its frugal approach to his government's efforts to build a localized AI model.

SoftBank could invest $15 billion to $25 billion directly into Microsoft-backed OpenAI on top of its commitment of more than $15 billion to Stargate, the report said, citing multiple people with direct knowledge of the negotiations.