Reminder DeepSeek is a Chinese company whose headstart is attributed to stealing IP from American companies. Without the huge theft, they'd be nowhere.
Reminder that OpenAI is an American company whose headstart is attributed to stealing copyrighted material from everyone else. Without the huge theft, they'd be nowhere.
Last I checked, as it concerns the training of their models, all legal challenges are pending. No theft has yet been proven, as they used publicly available data.