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."

The emergence of DeepSeek came shortly after President Trump unveiled his "Stargate" project to invest $500bn in advancing AI.

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

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

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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.

Authors and artists have accused OpenAI of stealing their content to 'train' its bots--but now OpenAI is accusing a Chinese company of stealing its content to train its bots.

Silicon Valley’s initial advantage in LLMs evaporated quickly despite export controls, writes AI expert Gary Marcus.

SoftBank Group, led by Masayoshi Son, is in discussions to invest up to $40 billion in OpenAI, valuing it at $300 billion. This follows a shift in AI dynamics with DeepSeek overtaking ChatGPT in US App Store rankings,