Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's chatbot achieved only 17% accuracy in delivering news and information in a NewsGuard audit that ranked it tenth out of eleven in a comparison with its Western competitors including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's chatbot has struggled in delivering accurate news and information, according to a recent audit by NewsGuard. The chatbot achieved a mere 17% accuracy rate, placing it tenth out of eleven when compared to its Western competitors,

Despite the controversy surrounding the Chinese open-source model, it has received the blessing of US companies that say their versions of it are safer and feature less censorship.