US-China Relations

OpenAI Says China’s DeepSeek May Have ‘Inappropriately’ Used Its Data to Build Rival Model

The firm has attracted top U.S. and Australian officials’ attention for national security implications.
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OpenAI Says China’s DeepSeek May Have ‘Inappropriately’ Used Its Data to Build Rival Model
Screens displaying the logo of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company that develops open-source large language models, and the logo of OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, in Toulouse, France, on Jan. 29, 2025. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images
Eva Fu
Eva Fu
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Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek has stunned the market by introducing a chatbot built at a fraction of the cost of U.S. rivals. But questions are growing over whether the firm may have taken a shortcut.

ChatGPT creator OpenAI said on Jan. 29 that DeepSeek might have “inappropriately” used its data.

Eva Fu
Eva Fu
Reporter
Eva Fu is an award-winning, New York-based journalist for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S. politics, U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at [email protected]
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