KEY TAKEAWAYS OpenAI said Wednesday that it is probing whether Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek improperly used its data to launch the low-cost model that spooked markets Monday.The comment by OpenAI follows a Bloomberg report that both OpenAI and its biggest backer Microsoft are investigating DeepSeek's model.

OpenAI told the Financial Times that it found evidence linking DeepSeek to the use of distillation — a common technique developers use to train AI models by extracting data from

Following the launch of DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup has been causing quite a stir in the industry. Nvidia saw its stock price fall, while ChatGPT was found to be slower than the newcomer in some tests. But now ChatGPT creator OpenAI says that DeepSeek might have used its AI models for training.