OpenAI says DeepSeek ‘inappropriately’ copied ChatGPT – but it’s facing copyright claims too
- Written by Lea Frermann, Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing, The University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
TA Design/ShutterstockUntil a few weeks ago, few people in the Western world had heard of a small Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company known as DeepSeek. But on January 20, it captured global attention when it released a new AI model called R1.
R1 is a “reasoning” model, meaning it works through tasks step by step and details...





