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SoftBank Group Corp. is in discussions to invest as much as $25 billion in OpenAI, a move that would potentially make it the AI startup’s biggest backer.Most Read from BloombergManhattan’s Morning Com

OpenAI has claimed it found evidence suggesting that DeepSeek used distillation, a technique that extracts data from larger models to train smaller ones. OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, which cost over $100 million to train,

The DeepSeek drama may have been briefly eclipsed by, you know, everything in Washington (which, if you can believe it, got even crazier Wednesday). But rest assured that over in Silicon Valley, there has been nonstop,

Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained by a group linked to DeepSeek in an unauthorized manner, reported the news agency, Bloomberg.

O SoftBank Group negocia para investir até US$ 25 bilhões na OpenAI, um movimento que poderia torná-lo o maior patrocinador da startup de inteligência artificial.

Sources cited in the report suggest that Microsoft security teams detected unusual data movements in late 2024.

Davos | San Francisco | SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $US25 billion ($40 billion) into OpenAI, in a deal which would make it the ChatGPT maker’s biggest financial backer, as the pair partner on a massive new artificial intelligence infrastructure project.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman briefed US policymakers on the need to continue investing heavily in physical infrastructure to support future artificial intelligence development, days after the frenzy around Chinese upstart DeepSeek cast new doubt on AI spending.

Fresh on the heels of a controversy in which ChatGPT maker OpenAI accused the Chinese company behind DeepSeek R1 of using its AI model outputs against its terms of service, OpenAI's largest investor Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will now host DeepSeek R1 on its Azure cloud service.

OpenAI has alleged that DeepSeek stole data from the company to train its R1 AI model and used a special technique to mask its tracks.

AI giant OpenAI claims it has evidence DeepSeek used its work to develop its seemingly revolutionary DeepSeek AI models released earlier this month.