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

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

The DeepSeek drama may have been briefly eclipsed by, you know, everything in Washington (which, if you can believe it, got even crazier Wednesday). But rest assured that over in Silicon Valley, there has been nonstop,

DeepSeek sent the tech industry and financial markets spiraling this month with the release of its supposedly low-cost AI model called R1. But the Financial Times reported today that OpenAI has evidence a group linked to DeepSeek may have violated its terms of service preventing users from taking “output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.”

Deepseek is starting to raise flags as the tech community responds with mockery amid allegations the Chinese startup is copying the copiers.

The AI expert’s remarks come as OpenAI and other Silicon Valley giants face a reckoning following DeepSeek’s success.

Indian media outlets including NDTV, The Indian Express, and Hindustan Times have requested a New Delhi court to let them join an ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI alleging copyright infringement. The Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA),

OpenAI prohibits the practice of training a new AI model by repeatedly querying a larger, pre-trained model, a technique commonly referred to as distillation, according to their terms of use. And the company suspects DeepSeek may have tried something similar,

The new agreement “includes changes to the exclusivity on new capacity, moving to a model where Microsoft has a right of first refusal (ROFR),” Microsoft says. “To further support OpenAI, Microsoft has approved OpenAI’s ability to build additional capacity, primarily for research and training of models.”

"There's substantial evidence that what DeepSeek did here is they distilled the knowledge out of OpenAI's models and I don’t think OpenAI is very happy about this,” said the U

DeepSeek caused waves all over the world on Monday as one of its accomplishments — that it had created a very powerful A.I. model with far less money than many A.I. experts thought possible — raised a host of questions, including whether U.S. companies were even competitive in A.I. anymore.