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.
“We’ve seen some evidence and we’re continuing to review,” Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, told Bloomberg Television on Monday. He said the company has “talked with government officials” about the issue, without elaborating.
DeepSeek stunned the tech industry last month with the launch of a competitive new model that it claimed to have developed for a small fraction of what others are spending. However, some ...
