There is growing concern that the artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek may have stolen from US technology companies, after media reports said Microsoft and OpenAI were investigating the possibility that the China-based company had illegally obtained data for use on its AI platform.

Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s new artificial intelligence chatbot has sparked discussions about the competition between China and the U.S. in AI development, with many users flocking to test the riv

AI chatbot DeepSeek has taken the world by storm, topping app store charts and sending Silicon Valley and Wall Street into meltdown. An offshoot of Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, DeepSeek’s cost-to-performance ratio makes for impressive reading compared to incumbents such as OpenAI.