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Microsoft probing whether DeepSeek improperly used OpenAI APIs


Just a few hours after David Sacks claimed DeepSeek used OpenAI’s models to train its own models, Bloomberg Law reports that Microsoft is investigating

According to security researchers working for Microsoft, the Chinese company behind the R1 reasoning model may have exfiltrated a large amount of data using OpenAI’s API in the fall of 2024. While anyone can sign up and access OpenAI’s API, the company’s terms of service stipulate that you can’t use the output to train a new AI model. It’s going to be interesting to see whether DeepSeek has found innovative ways to circumvent OpenAI’s rate limits and query its API at scale.

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