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

An AI chatbot backed by the French government has been taken offline shortly after it launched, after providing nonsensical answers to simple mathematical equations and even recommending that one user eat cow’s eggs.

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.

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.

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.

The Chinese firm said training the model cost just $5.6 million. Microsoft alleges DeepSeek ‘distilled’ OpenAI’s work.

The DeepSeek chatbot, known as R1, responds to user queries just like its U.S.-based counterparts. Early testing released by DeepSeek suggests that its quality rivals that of other AI products, while the company says it costs less and uses far fewer specialized chips than do its competitors.

The Andhra Pradesh government, in collaboration with Meta, has introduced ‘Mana Mitra,’ a WhatsApp-based chatbot designed to provide residents with quick and convenient access to over 160 public services.

As with the popular TikTok alternative RedNote, Western users are finding some topics off-limits in DeepSeek R1.

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

OpenAI has announced ChatGPT Gov, a new version of their premiere AI models that the company hopes will be used securely by U.S. government agencies.