Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI is in early discussions for a funding round that could value it at a whopping $340 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, which would more than double its valuation amid competitive threats from up-and-coming Chinese AI firm DeepSeek.
OpenAI thinks DeepSeek may have used its AI outputs inappropriately, highlighting ongoing disputes over copyright, fair use, and training data.
OpenAI itself has been accused of building ChatGPT by inappropriately accessing content it didn't have the rights to.
The Japanese conglomerate is in talks to spend up to $43 billion to boost the ChatGPT developer.
OpenAI says it plans to let U.S. National Laboratories use its AI models for nuclear weapons security and other scientific projects.
OpenAI claims to have found evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek secretly used data produced by OpenAI’s technology to improve their own AI models, according to the Financial Times. If true, DeepSeek would be in violation of OpenAI’s terms of service. In a statement, the company said it is actively investigating.
OpenAI has been cozying up to the government for a few years now, and it’s been turbocharged under the Trump Presidency. Earlier this week, Altman announced ChatGPT Gov, a specialized version of its chatbot for government applications.
What I can say is that it's a little rich for OpenAI to suddenly be so very publicly concerned about the sanctity of proprietary data. Collectively, the contributions from copyrighted sources are significant enough that OpenAI has said it would be "impossible" to build its large-language models without them.
Shaadi.com founder Anupam Mittal took a dig at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman after China’s DeepSeek AI sent shockwaves through the industry, outperforming ChatGPT in some areas, despite being built at a fraction of the cost. Mittal’s reaction comes in response ...
The global artificial intelligence (AI) landscape has witnessed a new shift with the emergence of China’s DeepSeek, a powerful AI model developed to counterbalance American AI giants like OpenAI, Google,
Microsoft is making its AI-powered Copilot even smarter by bringing OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model to all users—for free. All details.