Did DeepSeek use OpenAI's models to train its own? Trump's crypto czar says there's 'substantial evidence'

Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David Sacks, claimed there is "substantial evidence" suggesting that Chinese AI company DeepSeek used knowledge from OpenAI's models. Sacks described the process as distillation, where one AI model uses outputs from another to develop similar capabilities.

Did DeepSeek use OpenAI's models to train its own? Trump's crypto czar says there's 'substantial evidence'
Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David Sacks, claimed there is "substantial evidence" suggesting that Chinese AI company DeepSeek used knowledge from OpenAI's models. Sacks described the process as distillation, where one AI model uses outputs from another to develop similar capabilities.