DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App

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

If artificial intelligence can truly run more efficiently, the power it needs might be less than experts assume.

Virgin Money has apologized to a customer who was scolded by one of the bank’s chatbots after it appeared to confuse its own company’s name for an insult. In a LinkedIn post published last week, fintech commentator David Birch posted a screenshot of his interaction with a Virgin Money chatbot,

Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.

The United States may have kicked off the A.I. arms race, but a Chinese app is now shaking it up. R1, a chatbot from the startup DeepSeek, is sitting pretty at the top of the Apple and Google app stores,

OpenAI is investigating whether Chinese artificial-intelligence startup DeepSeek trained its new chatbot by repeatedly querying the U.S. company’s AI models. The Silicon Valley-based company said Wednesday it has seen various attempts by China-based entities to exfiltrate large volumes of data from its AI tools,

The chatbot repeated false claims 30% of the time and gave vague answers 53% of the time in response to prompts, resulting in an 83% fail rate.

The US Congressional offices have started to issue warnings to their employees against utilising Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek. Earlier on Thursday, the data protection authority in Italy blocked access to the Chinese AI tool.

The chatbot from China appears to perform a number of tasks as well as its American competitors do, but it censors topics such as Tiananmen Square.