<p>ChatGPT maker OpenAI has become the subject of widespread mockery online after whining that buzzy Chinese AI startup DeepSeek stole its intellectual property — despite indiscriminately ripping off other people's work itself for many years. The Sam Altman-led company told the Financial Times that it had "some evidence" of DeepSeek stealing its intellectual property, training its AI models on the output of OpenAI's models. DeepSeek threw Silicon Valley into complete chaos earlier this week, wiping out over $1 trillion worth of market capitalization in a single day. Its R1 model, in particular, impressed with the performance that can rival OpenAI's most […]</p>