Financial Times: OpenAI claims there is evidence that DeepSeek uses its model for training

OpenAI said it found evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used its proprietary model for training. The company claims to have seen evidence of "distillation," a technique used by developers to achieve better performance on smaller models by using the output of larger and more powerful models, allowing them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at lower costs. OpenAI refused to further comment on the details of its evidence. The terms of service stipulate that users cannot 'copy' any of its services or 'use the output to develop models that compete with OpenAI'. A person close to OpenAI said that "distillation" is a common practice in the industry and emphasized that the company provides developers with a way to use its own platform to achieve this goal, but he said, "The problem is when you create your own model for your own purposes American AI and crypto czar David Sacks also pointed out that "there is a lot of evidence to suggest that what DeepSeek is doing here is extracting knowledge from OpenAI models, and I don't think OpenAI is happy about this," although he did not provide any evidence. （FT）