China's AI chatbot DeepSeek shocked Big Tech, but questions over data security remain
Two years later, Altman's dismissal seems to have been proven completely wrong with the debut of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI chatbot that was ostensibly trained for just US$5.6 million (S$7.6 million). DeepSeek is thus challenging entrenched assumptions about the AI industry, and shaking up the "Big Tech" world.