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,

Sources at Open AI believe DeepSeek unlawfully distilled data from ChatGPT, Open AI and Microsoft begin investigation.

DeepSeek is the biggest story in AI since ChatGPT hit the market. It showed up out of the blue and beat out the best AI models on the market at a fraction