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.

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

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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.

“Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms … almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B,” Alibaba’s cloud division reportedly announced via WeChat, comparing its model to those from OpenAI and Meta.

Tech news website The Information reported previously that SoftBank was planning to invest a total $40 billion into Stargate and OpenAI and had begun talks to borrow up to $18.5 billion in financing,

OpenAI's statement follows a week of panic on Wall Street after Chinese startup DeepSeek unveiled a powerful new chatbot, developed at a fraction of the cost of its US rivals. DeepSeek's performance has led to accusations of reverse engineering the capabilities of top US technologies,

In a series of posts on X, Steven Adler - who has been working on AI safety for four years - described his journey as a "wild ride with lots of chapters".

SoftBank is reportedly considering a historic $25 billion investment in OpenAI, which could surpass Microsoft's stake and position SoftBank as the ChatGPT maker's largest investor.