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

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 rival of OpenAI ‘s ChatGPT.

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,

Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating if DeepSeek accessed data without permission, with reports suggesting DeepSeek used OpenAI’s API to transfer large data volumes. Microsoft suspects the stolen data helped “distill” ChatGPT’s knowledge into DeepSeek’s R1 model,

OpenAI partner, Microsoft is now investigating whether the Chinese company, DeepSeek may have used an illegal process to train its popular new reasoning model.