The U.S. tried to slow China’s advances, but the startup showed how hard that is.

President Donald Trump said DeepSeek’s AI advances should be a “wake-up call” for the U.S.

Days after Chinese upstart DeepSeek revealed a breakthrough in cheap AI computing that shook the U.S. technology industry, the chief executives of Microsoft and Meta defended massive spending that they said was key to staying competitive in the new field.

The artificial intelligence arms race has a new competitor out of China. A new AI app made by Chinese tech startup DeepSeek appears to be better and significantly cheaper than its American counterparts.

OpenAI has accused Chinese AI startup DeepSeek of using its proprietary models to train an open-source competitor, raising concerns over potential intellectual property violations.The Financial Times reported that OpenAI found evidence of "distillation,

OpenAI believes DeepSeek used a process called “distillation,” which helps make smaller AI models perform better by learning from larger ones.

OpenAI is investigating whether Chinese artificial-intelligence startup DeepSeek trained its new chatbot by repeatedly querying the U.S. company’s AI models. A spokesperson said the ChatGPT maker is reviewing indications that DeepSeek extricated large volumes of data from OpenAI’s tools to help develop its technology,

Did the upstart Chinese tech company DeepSeek copy ChatGPT to make the artificial intelligence technology that shook Wall Street this week.

While the chatbots offer similar answers, the free version of China's ultra-efficient model has no messaging limits. But privacy concerns might have you sticking with ChatGPT.