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.

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

Did DeepSeek violate OpenAI's IP rights? An ironic question given OpenAI's past with IP rights. What can we learn from this classic playbook to protect a business?

As the U.S. races to be the best in the AI field, one of the researchers at the most prominent company, OpenAI, has quit.

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.

OpenAI is concerned about Chinese companies imitating its advanced AI models and is taking steps to prevent this. Meanwhile, OpenAI faces numerous copyright infringement lawsuits globally, including in India,

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.

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.

AI filmmakers and creatives applauded the move — welcoming the opportunity to receive copyright protections on their work.