OpenAI Says DeepSeek Using Its Work for Their AI Apps

Microsoft is reportedly investigating whether data belonging to OpenAI - which it is a major investor in - has been used in an unauthorised way.

OpenAI's concerns have been echoed by the recently appointed White House "AI and crypto czar", David Sacks. "There's substantial evidence that what DeepSeek did here is they distilled the knowledge out of OpenAI's models," Mr Sacks said.

However, it is not clear how problematic the idea of "building on" the work of others is. This is especially true in AI, where the accusation of disrespecting intellectual property rights has been frequently levelled at major US AI firms – including OpenAI.

Meanwhile, US officials are also considering the national security implications of DeepSeek's emergence. Data safety experts have warned users to be careful with the tool, given it collects large amounts of personal data and stores it in servers in China.

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Chris Campbell:

DeepSeek's New AI Image Generator Beats OpenAI’s DALL-E 3

DeepSeek has made headlines for its semi-open-source AI models that rival OpenAI's ChatGPT despite being made at a fraction of the cost. Now DeepSeek claims that the latest model of its free Janus image generator, Janus-Pro-7B, beat OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stability AI's Stable Diffusion in benchmark tests.

Janus-Pro-7B is a free model that can analyze and create new images. As with other image generators, users describe in text what image they want, and the image generator creates it. The model's improvements come from newer training processes, improved data quality and a larger model size, according to a technical report seen by Reuters.

DeepSeek fed the model 72 million high-quality synthetic images and balanced them with real-world data, which reportedly allows Janus-Pro-7B to create more visually appealing and stable images than competing image generators.

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Ray Blanco:

Trump Asks Musk To ‘Go Get’ NASA Astronauts Stuck in Space

President Trump said yesterday that he “asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to ‘go get’ the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space.”

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, part of a Boeing mission in early June, have been on the International Space Station (ISS) for a little over half a year. An initial launch was delayed multiple times because of thruster failures and helium leaks.

The trip of the two astronauts was originally meant to be around only eight to ten days.

A return mission for Williams and Wilmore that would use a SpaceX craft was originally planned for February, but it was moved, according to NASA. “NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 now is targeting no earlier than late March 2025 to launch four crew members to the International Space Station,” the agency said in a mid-December release.

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