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.
“We know that groups in the PRC are actively working to use methods, including what’s known as distillation, to try to replicate advanced U.S. AI models,” an OpenAI spokesperson told The Epoch Times, using the acronym for the Chinese regime’s official name, the People’s Republic of China….