OpenAI, the company behind the internet-scraping ChatGPT large language model (LLM), has complained that the new Chinese AI assistant DeepSeek has been copying its models. The emergence of DeepSeek, an AI LLM that was apparently developed at a fraction of the cost of other models but boasts comparable performance, has sent shares in AI-focused tech firms like Nvidia tumbling.
A new Bloomberg report says Microsoft, which is a major investor in OpenAI, is investigating whether OpenAI's data has been exfiltrated on a large scale by DeepSeek. An OpenAI license allows developers access to the OpenAI API so it can be plugged into other software. The implication is that DeepSeek has been trained on OpenAI responses during its development.
