OpenAI says DeepSeek, its sudden Chinese rival, may have "inappropriately” taken data from its model to spin up its own artificial intelligence chatbot. DeepSeek released a surprisingly effective and inexpensive Large Language Model,

Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek,

DeepSeek is causing havoc throughout the AI industry. U.S.-based tech companies that have heavily invested in AI saw their stocks take a tumble this week after the China-based startup released a new AI model on par with OpenAI's latest model, yet much cheaper to train — plus, DeepSeek made it free and open source.