DeepSeek’s advances have roiled global stock markets and AI players. Now, its influence is spreading quickly at home, with some of China’s biggest tech companies, many of which had been developing their own chatbots,

OpenAI has spoken to government officials about the company’s ongoing investigation into whether China’s DeepSeek used data obtained in an unauthorized manner from the ChatGPT maker’s technology, according to a top executive.

After DeepSeek AI shocked the world and tanked the market, OpenAI says it has evidence that ChatGPT distillation was used to train the model.