This story incorporates reporting from The Financial Times, New York Post, The Australian Financial Review, Business Insider, Business Insider and Bloomberg L.P..SoftBank, the Japanese multinational conglomerate,

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

White House artificial intelligence czar David Sacks said there’s “substantial evidence” that Chinese upstart DeepSeek leaned on the output of OpenAI’s models to help develop its own technology.

David Sacks says OpenAI has evidence that Chinese company DeepSeek used a technique called "distillation" to build a rival model.

For example, Morgan Stanley uses OpenAI’s technology in parts of the bank’s wealth management and investment banking businesses, she said. ©2025 Bloomberg L.P. What are your thoughts on the ...

Microsoft 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 (AI) startup DeepSeek, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.

The announcement of DeepSeek's R1 model led to significant market reactions, with notable declines in tech stocks, including a substantial drop in Nvidia's valuation. This downturn was driven by concerns that more efficient AI models could reduce the demand for high-end hardware and, by extension, the expansive data centers that house them.

President Donald Trump will meet with Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang at the White House on Friday as the US prepares to tee up tariffs on semiconductors, weighs the fate of a subsidy program and probes whether Chinese AI startup DeepSeek skirted export controls to obtain the chipmakers’ products.

Amazon.com Inc. is expected to spend 60% more than previously announced on a massive data center project in Mississippi, underscoring the escalating costs for artificial intelligence infrastructure.

U.S. officials are investigating whether Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek skirted American export restrictions on advanced chip sales and bought advanced Nvidia (NVDA) semiconductors through third parties in Singapore,

Officials in the White House and FBI have begun a probe into DeepSeek to determine whether banned NVIDIA chips were used to create the R1 model.