Deepseek is ‘IP theft’: US officials raise alarm; Microsoft had alerted OpenAI

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, alleges that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used its proprietary models to train a competing AI system, citing evidence to support its claim.

The San Francisco-based company discovered what it believes to be signs of “distillation” by DeepSeek, a technique where developers use outputs from larger AI models to improve the performance of smaller ones, according to the Financial Times.