DeepSeeks AI delivers responses comparable to ChatGPT, but its China-hosted version shows differences, particularly in avoiding sensitive political topics.

OpenAI has raised alarms about its Chinese competitor, DeepSeek, suggesting that the company may have "inappropriately" used its data to develop its own artificial intelligence chatbot. The claim comes after DeepSeek released a highly effective and low-cost Large Language Model (LLM) on Monday,

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

Top White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China's DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of U.S. rivals called "distillation." The technique,

The start-up had become a key player in the “Chinese Large-Model Technology Avengers Team” that would counter US AI dominance, said another. China’s delight, however, spelled pain for several giant US technology companies as investors questioned whether DeepSeek’s breakthrough undermined the case for their colossal spending on AI infrastructure.