OpenAI says Chinese rivals using its work for their AI apps
Added 2025-01-29 20:50:26 +0000 UTCBloomberg has reported that Microsoft is investigating whether data belonging to OpenAI - which it is a major investor in - has been used in an unauthorised way.
The BBC has contacted Microsoft and DeepSeek for comment.
OpenAI's concerns have been echoed by the recently appointed White House "AI and crypto czar", David Sacks.
Speaking on Fox News, he suggested that DeepSeek may have used the models developed by OpenAI to get better, a process called knowledge distillation.
"There's substantial evidence that what DeepSeek did here is they distilled the knowledge out of OpenAI's models," Mr Sacks said.
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