In 2025, it's easier than ever to build an AI chatbot. We explain how to build a chatbot from scratch in 7 steps, without spending a cent.

Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.

The United States may have kicked off the A.I. arms race, but a Chinese app is now shaking it up. R1, a chatbot from the startup DeepSeek, is sitting pretty at the top of the Apple and Google app stores,

Virgin Money has apologized to a customer who was scolded by one of the bank’s chatbots after it appeared to confuse its own company’s name for an insult. In a LinkedIn post published last week, fintech commentator David Birch posted a screenshot of his interaction with a Virgin Money chatbot,

An AI chatbot backed by the French government has been taken offline shortly after it launched, after providing nonsensical answers to simple mathematical equations and even recommending that one user eat cow’s eggs.

The AI chatbot was launched with the goal of reducing the dominance of English-language AI models and offering a French alternative to tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek stunned markets and AI experts with its claim that it built its immensely popular chatbot at a fraction of the cost of those made by American tech tita

We put its chatbot to the test in New York on Tuesday and Wednesday, asking it a battery of questions on sensitive topics that are routinely the subject of censorship within China, including the so-called taboo “three Ts”: Tiananmen, Taiwan and Tibet. We also asked the same questions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

The chatbot repeated false claims 30% of the time and gave vague answers 53% of the time in response to prompts, resulting in an 83% fail rate.

Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s new artificial intelligence chatbot has sparked discussions about the competition between China and the U.S. in AI development, with many users flocking to test the rival of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

A Korean chatbot named Iruda was manipulated by users to spew hate speech, leading to a large fine for her makers — and providing a warning for lawmakers.