OpenAI has suspended the account of TikTok parent ByteDance following a report that the China-owned firm was “secretly” using its “GPT” AI technology to build its own rival chatbot service.

Chinese tech giant ByteDance says it is using OpenAI’s technology “to a very limited extent” to help develop its own AI models.

Internal company documents confirm that TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, has been using OpenAI’s GPT model to build a competitor, in violation of its license with Microsoft.

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SoftBank is preparing to lead fresh investment into OpenAI at a $300 billion valuation, Business Insider understands — a move that would value the ChatGPT maker the same as TikTok owner ByteDance.

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OpenAI has temporarily suspended ByteDance's account after it was revealed that the TikTok parent was building its own large language model (LLM) using the ChatGPT-maker's technology.

In today’s issue of Command Line, I reported that ByteDance has been violating the developer license of both Microsoft and OpenAI by using GPT-generated data to train its own, competing model in ...