OpenAI says China's DeepSeek trained

OpenAI has warned U.S. lawmakers that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek targeted the ChatGPT maker and the nation's AI labs to "distill" information to train its own models.



The distillation technique involves having an older, more established and powerful AI model evaluate the quality of the answers coming out of a newer model, effectively transferring the older model's learnings.



In a memo to the U.S. House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party, OpenAI said: "We have observed accounts associated with DeepSeek employees developing methods to circumvent OpenAI's access restrictions and access models through obfuscated third-party routers and other ways that mask their source."



DeepSeek and its parent company High-Flyer did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.