Chinese startup DeepSeek's artificial intelligence challenges major U.S. tech companies like Meta and OpenAI. Here's why.

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3. The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.

OpenAI is investigating whether Chinese artificial-intelligence startup DeepSeek trained its new chatbot by repeatedly querying the U.S. company’s AI models. A spokesperson said the ChatGPT maker is reviewing indications that DeepSeek extricated large volumes of data from OpenAI’s tools to help develop its technology,

OpenAI said on Wednesday that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's open-source models may have "inappropriately" based its work on the output of OpenAI's models, an OpenAI spokesperson told Axios. Why it matters: China's DeepSeek has taken the AI industry by storm with its R1 reasoning model that competes with OpenAI's o1,

OpenAI is examining whether Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek improperly obtained data from its models to build a popular new AI assistant, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill. The ChatGPT maker said it is “reviewing indications that DeepSeek may have inappropriately distilled” its models.

The American company OpenAI has accused the Chinese startup DeepSeek of using its proprietary AI models. According to reports by the British newspaper "Financial Times" on Wednesday, these models were allegedly used to train the artificial intelligence developed by the Chinese company.