The company is pursuing “countermeasures to protect” its intellectual property amid Chinese rival DeepSeek’s rapid growth OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has vowed to combat the potential use of its intellectual property following the launch of its Chinese rival DeepSeek. The US government suspects that the new startup could have “distilled” data from the American company to build its product, according to White House AI advisor David Sacks. Earlier this month, DeepSeek unveiled an open-source