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The sweet irony of OpenAI’s DeepSeek beef

OpenAI thinks DeepSeek took its private data to train its models; the hearts of writers, artists, musicians and journalists around the world must bleed for it.

The dramatic entrance of Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek to the global AI party – billed as AI’s Sputnik moment – has caused plenty of headaches as investors, incumbent platforms and political leaders try to understand how much it has changed the game.

For journalists, it is nice to sit back and enjoy a little schadenfreude at the complaints of Microsoft-backed industry giant OpenAI and how DeepSeek went about crashing OpenAI’s party.

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Paul Smith edits the technology coverage and has been a leading writer on the sector for 20 years. He covers big tech, business use of tech, the fast-growing Australian tech industry and start-ups, telecommunications and national innovation policy. Connect with Paul on Twitter. Email Paul at psmith@afr.com

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