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Tengrinews.kz - OpenAI claims to have evidence that the new Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek used its data to develop its own product, according to Financial Times.
The White House is reportedly considering possible accusations of intellectual property rights violations.
"The issue is when you [take it out of the platform and] are doing it to create your own model for your own purposes," a source close to OpenAI stated.
According to OpenAI’s terms of use, users cannot "copy" its services or "use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI."
Additionally, OpenAI and its partner Microsoft investigated accounts allegedly linked to DeepSeek last year. These accounts, which had used OpenAI’s API (application programming interface), were blocked due to suspected distillation, which violated the terms of use, a source familiar with the matter said.
David Sacks, a former AI and cryptocurrency advisor in Donald Trump's administration, also previously suggested that intellectual property theft may have occurred.
On January 20, DeepSeek released its open-source AI model R1 for free. Its performance rivals OpenAI’s o1 (ChatGPT) in certain tests. The Chinese company reportedly spent only $5.6 million to launch the new AI model, while its Western competitors invest hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars. For instance, Meta plans to invest $65 billion in AI development by 2025.
DeepSeek quickly became the top app in the App Store, surpassing ChatGPT. According to analytics service Similarweb, the company's website traffic surged from 280,000 daily visits to 6.2 million.
Following the release of DeepSeek’s free open-source AI model R1, stocks of major U.S. tech and AI firms, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Meta, declined.
Earlier, TikTok returned online after Donald Trump promised to restore it. The platform's downtime lasted only a few hours.
