OpenAI is investigating whether Chinese artificial-intelligence startup DeepSeek trained its new chatbot by repeatedly querying the U.S. company’s AI models. The Silicon Valley-based company said Wednesday it has seen various attempts by China-based entities to exfiltrate large volumes of data from its AI tools,

After DeepSeek AI shocked the world and tanked the market, OpenAI says it has evidence that ChatGPT distillation was used to train the model.

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.

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek disrupted Silicon Valley with the release of cheaply developed AI models that compete with flagship offerings from OpenAI — but the ChatGPT maker suspects they were built upon OpenAI data.

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.

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.

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek developed its new models that have taken the world by storm by training them on content from OpenAI, President Trump’s AI czar David Sacks said Tuesday.