The cheap, open AI model has sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley. Has Australia already been left behind or does DeepSeek’s rapid rise, despite limited resources, mean something similar could emerge locally?

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 US rivals called "distillation."

After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people's work, OpenAI is trying to pin blame on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.

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ChatGPT maker says it will need extra protection from US government, following emergence of Chinese rival, DeepSeek.

Suspicions over what China could do with all the U.S. customer ... and if he doesn't want OpenAI to be heading for the kind of long-term decline that has affected so many haughty U.S. tech ...

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in ChatGPT owner OpenAI, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the Japanese conglomerate continues to expand into the sector.

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.

Scrapping export restrictions on top-of-the-line GPU chips because of DeepSeek's s AI success would hand China a major win, says Toner.

OpenAI claims that Chinese companies are frequently attempting to leverage U.S. AI technology to enhance their own models. The company emphasizes the importance of collaborating with the U.S. government to protect against these efforts,

OpenAI and Microsoft are investigating whether Chinese AI startup DeepSeek accessed OpenAI’s technology without authorisation.