Microsoft Suspects DeepSeek of Illegally Obtaining OpenAI Data
Microsoft suspects Chinese neural network DeepSeek of illegally obtaining OpenAI data, Bloomberg reports, citing informed sources. According to them, the American company has begun investigating a possible leak.
Microsoft security experts noticed back in the fall that certain individuals who, according to the company, could be associated with DeepSeek, were requesting large amounts of data through the OpenAI API, Bloomberg sources said. OpenAI sells access to the API, a tool that allows third-party developers to integrate OpenAI artificial intelligence models into their applications. Microsoft, as a technology partner and the largest investor in OpenAI, notified the company about what was happening. This activity may violate OpenAI’s terms of service or indicate that a company associated with the Chinese lab was trying to circumvent restrictions on the amount of data that OpenAI clients can receive.
David Sachs, who has been named the AI and cryptocurrency “king” by US President Donald Trump, previously told Fox News that DeepSeek developers used OpenAI’s neural network responses to train their own models. “There’s significant evidence that DeepSeek has learned from OpenAI models, and I don’t think OpenAI is very happy about that,” Sachs said.
