Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's chatbot achieved only 17% accuracy in delivering news and information in a NewsGuard audit that ranked it tenth out of eleven in a comparison with its Western competitors including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

OpenAI is investigating whether Chinese artificial-intelligence startup DeepSeek trained its new chatbot by repeatedly querying the U.S. company’s AI models.

An AI chatbot backed by the French government has been taken offline shortly after it launched, after providing nonsensical answers to simple mathematical equations and even recommending that one user eat cow’s eggs.

DeepSeek’s chatbot with the R1 model is a stunning release from the Chinese startup. While it’s an innovation in training efficiency, hallucinations still run rampant.

OpenAI allegedly has evidence that China trained its industry-shaking DeepSeek with OpenAI's data, forcing the company to confront how it will prevent this moving forward.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's chatbot scored a mere 17% accuracy in NewsGuard's audit, ranking it 10th out of 11 in performance against Western competitors. Highlighting technology gaps, the chatbot repeated false claims 30% of the time,

Canada’s largest airline was ordered to pay damage to the passenger, Jake Moffatt, who said he was assured by the chatbot that he could book a full-fare flight for his grandmother's funeral and then apply for a bereavement fare later.

Observers are eager to see whether the Chinese company has matched America's leading AI companies at a fraction of the cost.

The chatbot from China appears to perform a number of tasks as well as its American competitors do, but it censors topics such as Tiananmen Square.

A new international report on artificial intelligence (AI) was released before a summit in France next month. View on euronews